Via Globo.com: Brasil tem 8.536 mortes e 125.218 casos confirmados de novo coronavírus, diz ministério. I note that "lockdown" is now a word in Brazilian Portugues. Excerpt from the Google translation:
The Ministry of Health released on Wednesday (6) the balance of cases of new coronavirus in Brazil.
The main data are:
• 8,536 deaths, there were 7,921 deaths on Tuesday (5).
• There were 615 confirmed deaths in 24 hours.
• 125,218 confirmed cases, were 114,715 on Tuesday (5).
• There were 10,503 new confirmed cases. The biggest daily increase since the start of the pandemic.
• 65,312 patients are being followed up (52.2%).
• 51,370 patients are recovered (41.0%).
• São Paulo has 37,853 cases and 3,045 deaths.
The Minister of Health, Nelson Teich, evaluated that the numbers, which point to a daily record of death and case records, signal that Brazil is not yet on a downward curve and that care needs to be maintained.
Teich said that he is not "for or against" the adoption of lockdowns, and admitted that they may be necessary in some situations. "There will be a place where the lockdown is necessary, there will be a place where I will be able to think about flexibility. What I need is for us to stop treating this in a radical way," he said.
