The President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro in Brasilia on July 20, 2020. - Eraldo Peres / AP / SIPA

Friday, the World Health Organization had however affirmed that the pandemic had reached a plateau in Brazil. Unfortunately, the new figures from the Ministry of Health seem to invalidate these statements. The country indeed recorded an explosion of new coronavirus contaminations on Wednesday, with 67,860 cases in the last 24 hours, a record figure.

More than 2.23 million people infected

In total, more than 2.23 million people have been infected with Covid-19 in the largest country in Latin America. Five months after the detection of the first case, the country where the new coronavirus is the deadliest after the United States deplored a total of 82,771 deaths on Wednesday, after a significant daily increase of 1,284 deaths. The last record of new daily cases in this country of 212 million inhabitants went back to June 19 (54,771) and the explosion announced on Wednesday therefore appears surprising.

Brazilian official figures are considered largely inferior to reality by the scientific community, due to the lack of mass tests in this country whose president, Jair Bolsonaro, has also been infected, as well as several members of his government. . A fierce detractor of confinement, the head of state, 65, is in prolonged quarantine after a third positive test on Tuesday, two weeks after the announcement of his contamination.

Great regional disparities

The curve of the pandemic is therefore far from being controlled in Brazil, where the average of deaths over seven sliding days has remained above 1,000 for more than a month, with large regional disparities. The curves are progressing strongly in the more recently affected areas, in particular the South and the Center-West, while we are witnessing a stabilization or a decline elsewhere, such as in Sao Paulo or Rio, affected first.

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