(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) The cumulative number of deaths in Brazil exceeds 230,000 and 38 cases of mutant virus infection are confirmed
China News Agency, Sao Paulo, February 5 (Reporter Mo Chengxiong) According to data released by the Brazilian Ministry of Health at 19:00 on the 5th local time, there were 50,872 new confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in Brazil that day, and a total of 9,471,165 confirmed cases; 1239 new deaths , A total of 230034 deaths; a total of 8326798 cured.
The Brazilian Ministry of Health reported on the 5th that so far, 38 cases of mutated new coronavirus (P.1) infections have been confirmed across Brazil, including 31 in Amazonas, 2 in Para, and 5 in São Paulo.
Experts said that the mutated virus is more contagious and called on the health departments of all states to strengthen research and monitoring of the mutated new coronavirus and take timely response measures to prevent the spread and spread of the mutated virus.
Brazilian Economy Minister Paulo Guedes said on the 5th that the Brazilian government will continue to issue emergency assistance to the poor and vulnerable groups this year, but the number of beneficiaries will be halved compared with last year, about 32 million people, because some People have already received family subsidies from the government.
Last year, in response to the impact of the epidemic, the Brazilian government issued emergency assistance to low-income groups.
From April to August of that year, each person received 600 reais per month (1 U.S. dollar is about 5.4 reais).
From September to December, the amount was reduced to 300 reais.
On the 5th, the Sao Paulo state government made a new division of the state's epidemic prevention level, announcing that 6 areas including the Sao Paulo metropolitan area have entered the "yellow" stage of the third epidemic prevention level, and will allow these areas to Commercial establishments such as shops, shopping centers, restaurants and bars are open until 22:00.
Since the beginning of June last year, the São Paulo State’s economic restart plan has been divided into five phases of “red, orange, yellow, green, and blue” according to the degree of the epidemic, and different epidemic prevention and social isolation measures have been implemented in sequence.
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