translated from Spanish: Brazil exceeds 13 million covid-19 contagions

Brazil recorded 28,645 covid contagions in the last 24 hours and the total number of confirmed cases reached 13,013,601, at a time when the South American giant is at the worst time in the pandemic since the virus arrived in the country just over a year ago, it reported on Monday on Gobierno.De according to the most recent bulletin of the Ministry of Health , the number of coronavirus deaths in Brazil is also on the rise and the total number of deaths already totals 332,752, with 1,319 victims reported in the last day. The number of deaths and contagions reported on Monday is less than half of those reported last Friday when more than 70,000 cases and nearly 3,000 victims were reported by covid-19. The numbers may be higher due to the holidays commemorated by Easter and because this Monday the data of the state of Ceará were not included, due to technical problems. Since Friday, pandemic figures have waned in the South American giant, something that for the Health portfolio is common over the weekends because of the reduction of the staff processing the data these days. While nearly 3,800 deaths and more than 91,000 contagions were reported on Thursday, some 1,300 victims and nearly 29,000 cases confirmed by the virus were reported on Monday. These data have also decreased the average deaths and infected in the country, with 2,698 deaths and 62,855 daily contagions in the last week, compared to 3,117 deaths and 77,129 cases of covid that came to be reported a week ago. However, an uptick in casualties and cases is expected by Tuesday, as hospitals in much of the country are collapsed and only about two weeks from now will the effects of the measures taken in recent days by major regions of the country, such as Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, be seen to contain the virus. Brazil, with its more than 210 million inhabitants, is the second largest country in the world with the highest number of deaths and contagions, behind the United States.

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