translated from Spanish: Brazil records new daily record for confirmed covid-19 cases

Brazil, one of the three countries in the world most affected by the pandemic in absolute numbers along with the United States and India, recorded in the last 24 hours 115,228 confirmed cases, a new record of infections, and 2,392 deaths from coronavirus, according to official figures on Wednesday.
Since the first infection, on February 26 of the year, and the first death, on March 12, both in Sao Paulo, the country now has 18,169,881 confirmed cases and totals 507,109 deaths associated with COVID-19.
The previous record was from March 25 with 100,158 positive diagnoses, according to the official balance of that day. The regional health secretariats, however, counted 100,736 infections to date.
The Ministry of Health, in its most recent epidemiological bulletin, indicated that between Tuesday and Wednesday there was a significant increase in the number of infected (+31.2%) and one less pronounced in the daily deaths (+12.2 %), compared to the previous 24 hours.
According to the official report, in the nation of almost 212 million people, 16,483,635 patients have recovered from the novel coronavirus, representing 90.7% of the total number of infected.
Another 1,179,137 patients are on medical follow-up in hospitals or their nursing homes after testing positive.
The South American country has a mortality rate of 241 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants and an incidence of 8,646 people infected in the same proportion.
The state of Sao Paulo, the most populous in the country with 46 million inhabitants and located in the Southeast region, remains the one with the most confirmed cases (3,630,251) and deaths (123,825).
In Brazil, 110.2 million vaccines have been distributed, with 67 million applied in the first dose and 24.5 million in the second.
According to the total number of people eligible to receive the anti-covid vaccine (160 million), the country has managed to immunize almost 15.3% of this population with two doses.

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