The Covid-19 continues its galloping race in Brazil. The Latin American country became Thursday, June 5 the third country in the world deploring the most deaths linked to the new coronavirus, exceeding the threshold of 34,000 deaths, passing in front of Italy, after a new record of deaths recorded in 24 hours . 

The latest report from the Ministry of Health reports 34,021 deaths and 614,941 confirmed cases, with 1,473 deaths recorded since Wednesday evening, knowing that the official figures are largely underestimated according to specialists. 

After the United States and the United Kingdom 

With 212 million inhabitants, Brazil has a population three times higher than that of Italy, which was the epicenter of the pandemic in Europe and has 33,689 deaths.  

Brazil nevertheless deplores 153 deaths from Covid-19 per million inhabitants, against 557.2 for Italy or 587.8 for the United Kingdom. 

Brazil is the second country in the world in terms of infected people, behind the United States, with 30,925 new cases confirmed within 24 hours. 

For the third consecutive day, the largest country in Latin America records a record daily deaths, after 1,349 Wednesday and 1,262 Tuesday. 

The ministry's figures were not released until after 10 p.m., with no explanation being given for this late schedule. They were communicated at 5 p.m. at the start of the pandemic. 

Bolsonaro pleads for a return to normal when the virus is rising 

It has been almost three weeks since Brazil has had no Minister of Health since the resignation of Nelson Teich, replaced on an acting basis by Eduardo Pazuello, a general in activity. 

The state of São Paulo, the richest and most populous of the country, remains the most affected, with 8,560 dead and 129,200 confirmed cases, before that of Rio de Janeiro (6,327 dead and 60,032 infected). These two states, however, began a gradual recovery in economic activity this week. 

The situation remains critical in poor northern states, such as the Amazonas (with 2,183 dead) and Para (3,416), or in the northeast, such as Ceara (3,813) or Pernambuco (3,124). 

Even if the curves of the pandemic remain in full rise, the far-right president Jair Bolsonaro continues to advocate the return to normal activities, in the name of job preservation, calling into question the containment measures taken by the governors States. 

With AFP

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