(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) Over 30,000 newly confirmed cases in Brazil in a single day, a total of over 5.2 million confirmed cases
China News Agency, Sao Paulo, October 16 (Reporter Mo Chengxiong) The Brazilian Ministry of Health released data at 18:30 on the 16th local time showing that there were 30,914 new confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in Brazil that day, and a total of 5,200,300 confirmed cases; new deaths There were 754 cases and 153214 deaths in total; 4619560 cases were cured.
On October 2, 2020, local time, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Due to the new crown epidemic, the 2021 Rio de Janeiro Carnival parade was postponed, and the wreckage of costumes and floats were left idle. There is still no set open date.
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At present, the cumulative number of confirmed cases in Brazil is still ranked third in the world, after the United States and India, while the cumulative number of deaths is ranked second in the world after the United States.
São Paulo State, the most severely affected state, has a total of 1057240 confirmed cases and 37870 deaths.
In addition, the cumulative number of confirmed cases in Bahia and Minas Gerais exceeded 330,000, while the cumulative number of confirmed cases in Rio de Janeiro and Ceara was over 289,000 and 263,000 respectively.
The Federal District, where the capital Brasilia is located, has more than 203,000 confirmed cases.
Brazilian President Bolsonaro said at the completion ceremony of a biogas project in São Paulo State on the 16th that Brazil’s economy has shown good signs of recovery and that Brazil is getting rid of the crisis brought about by the new crown pneumonia epidemic. Return to normal state in a short time".
According to data released by the Brazilian National Geographic and Statistics Agency (IBGE) on the same day, between September 20 and 26, about 6.4 million Brazilian students did not participate in any school activities, accounting for about 13.9% of the total number of students, compared with the first in July. 20% of the weekly data has improved.
Statistics from the Bureau of Statistics also show that, affected by the epidemic, Brazil’s unemployment rate increased by 43% from May to September this year, adding 4.1 million unemployed people.
At present, the total number of unemployed people in Brazil has reached 14 million, accounting for 14.4% of the total population of Brazil, breaking through the highest unemployment rate recorded by this institution.
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