China News Agency, Sao Paulo, February 28 (Reporter Mo Chengxiong) According to data released by the Brazilian Ministry of Health at 18:40 on February 28, local time, there were 34,027 new confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in Brazil that day, and a total of 10,551,259 new cases were confirmed; There were 721 deaths and a total of 254,942 deaths; a total of 9411033 cases were cured.
Recently, due to the worsening of the rebound of the epidemic, 12 states in Brazil and the Federal District of Brasilia have upgraded epidemic prevention measures, and 7 states have imposed curfews.
From February 28th to March 15th, the Brasilia Federal District will impose restrictive measures on non-essential commercial establishments, stipulating that from 20 am to 5 am the next day, cinemas, theaters, shopping centers, Bars, restaurants and other places are closed, and authorized commercial establishments are prohibited from selling alcoholic beverages after 20 o'clock every day.
On January 17, 2021 local time, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Brazil's first batch of new crown vaccine vaccinators were vaccinated.
The city of Sao Paulo continued to vaccinate the new crown vaccination for elderly people 80 years and older on the same day, and increased the number of "car-through" vaccination stations to 6, so that the elderly can be vaccinated in the car without getting off the car.
The city plans to provide vaccinations for people under the age of 79 from March 3.
On the same day, the Instituto Butantan (Instituto Butantan) delivered another 600,000 doses of the Chinese Coxing New Crown vaccine to the Brazilian Ministry of Health.
It is reported that by the end of March this year, the institute will provide another 20 million doses of the Chinese Coxing vaccine for use in various parts of Brazil.
Data map: People wearing masks are shopping in a local supermarket in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Mo Chengxiong
As of February 28, the number of people receiving the first dose of the vaccine in Brazil has reached 6,576,109, accounting for 3.11% of the country's total population.
Among them, the number of people receiving the second dose of vaccine was 1933404, accounting for 0.91% of the country's total population.
As of now, Brazil ranks third in the world in the number of cumulative confirmed cases, after the United States and India, while the cumulative number of deaths ranks second in the world, behind the United States.
The most severely affected state of São Paulo has a total of 20,416,628 confirmed cases and 59,493 deaths.
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