Brazil Covid Map and Case Count

5 min readNov 21, 2020

The Brazil Ministry of Health reported 27,444 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, bringing the country total to 5,055,888 confirmed cases of the disease, remaining the 3rd highest total globally.

More than 4.4 million people have recovered from COVID-19 in Brazil to date, while officials report 472,654 active cases.

The disease is present in 99.8% of Brazilian municipalities. However, more than half of the cities (3,545) have between 2 and 100 cases.

Regarding deaths, Brazil has reported 149,639 deaths from coronavirus, with 682 deaths recorded in the last 24 hours.

The Ministry of Health announced on Thursday they forecast some 140 million doses of the vaccine for Covid-19 early next year. The expectation is that the population will have access to the vaccine to the inputs from January 2021, after approval by the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa).

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The portfolio has invested in the improvement of technological parks, such as Fiocruz and Butantan, to strengthen the Brazilian National Immunization Program and expand the national production capacity.

At first, the vaccines will be offered by the laboratory AstraZeneca, responsible for the development of the Oxford vaccine, and by the international consortium Covax Facility. “Combining the two initiatives, the expectation is that we will have around 140 million doses available to the Brazilian population in the first half of 2021, via the National Immunization Program (PNI)”, assured the executive secretary of the Ministry of Health, Élcio Franco . After the incorporation of technology in a second phase, the forecast is that the production capacity will be more than 165 million doses next year.

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The number of people to have died from Covid-19 in Brazil has passed 150,000, the country’s health ministry says.

Brazil has the second-highest coronavirus death toll in the world, after the US, and the third-highest number of cases after the US and India.

The country also passed five million total infections earlier this week.

President Jair Bolsonaro has been accused of downplaying the risks of the virus throughout the pandemic, ignoring expert advice on restrictive measures.

Brazil has by far the highest number of deaths in South America, and the state of São Paulo has been the worst hit.

According to figures from the health ministry, 150,198 people in Brazil have died of Covid since the first fatality was recorded in March, and 5,082,637 people have tested positive for the virus.

In Colombia, the next worst-hit country in the region, 27,495 people have died and there have been 894,300 confirmed cases.

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However the daily number of new cases in Brazil has been slowly falling since it plateaued in the summer, when there were about 1,000 new deaths per day for two months.

Mr Bolsonaro’s handling of the pandemic — his decision to oppose lockdown measures and prioritise the economy — has been extremely divisive.

He has also been criticised for minimising the threat of Covid-19, including by calling it a “little flu”.

However, the president has repeatedly rejected this criticism, even when he himself became ill with the virus in July.

In August, Brazil’s Vice-President Hamilton Mourão also defended the government’s approach, and instead blamed a lack of discipline among Brazilians for the failure to limit the spread of the virus through social distancing measures.

media captionBrazil’s vice-president says the authorities have struggled to enforce social distancing measures
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