Health

COVID-19: Confirmed cases top 135 thousand in Brazil

A total of 9,146 were reported to have been killed by the disease

Jonas Valente

Published on 08/05/2020 - 11:07

Brasília

Contaminação de coronavírus no Brasil. — © REUTERS / Amanda Perobelli / Direitos reservados

Brazil reached 135,106 confirmed cases of COVID-19. New cases amounted to 10,503, up eight percent from Wednesday, when 125,218 people had been identified with the disease.

Of the total, 70,620 are being monitored (52.2%), 55,350 have recovered (41%), and 1,782 deaths are being investigated, as per official figures updated Thursday (May 7).

The amount of deaths, in turn, rose to 9,146, up seven percent from Wednesday’s 8,536. Of these, 121 were deaths that took place in the last three days and the remaining on previous days, but confirmed in the last 24 hours. The lethality rate stands at 6.8 percent.

São Paulo is still the epicenter of the disease in the country, with the highest number of deaths (3,206), followed by Rio de Janeiro (1,394), Ceará (903), Pernambuco (845), and Amazonas (806).

The states with the highest number of cases for every one million people are Amapá (2,600), Amazonas (2,437), Acre (1,150), Roraima (1,684) Ceará (1,521), and Pernambuco (1,133).