Florida recorded 21,638 new cases of covid-19 yesterday, Saturday, the highest number since the pandemic began in March 2020, as reported by the State Department of Health to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). United States. The previous daily record was 19,334 cases announced on January 7, 2021, the worst month of the entire pandemic in Florida, which is currently the epicenter of the disease in the United States. The average number of new confirmed cases per day in Florida over the past 7 days is 15,818.
State hospitals are starting to be overcrowded with Covid-19 patients, the vast majority (over 90%) are not vaccinated, and many of the large medical centers have started banning visits and postponing non-urgent operations. Florida Governor, Republican Ron DeSantis, known for his opposition to the policy of epidemiologist Anthony Fauci, which he accuses of imposing a “dystopia”, has taken no action to address the resumption of the pandemic. He was even opposed to the decision to recommend the use of masks indoors, which includes the unvaccinated, and this year issued a decree so that schools cannot force children to wear masks when they reopen in August. . According to the decree, parents will decide whether their children will go to school with a mask. “There will be no closures, there will be no school closures. There will be no restrictions. Floridians have had and will continue to be free to choose what is best for themselves and their families,” DeSantis said.
Infections are decreasing in Brazil after six months
Brazil recorded 37,582 new cases and 910 deaths associated with the coronavirus on the last day of July, with the lowest weekly daily average of infections of the year and deaths of less than 1,000 deaths, according to official data released by the government. From the first infection, on February 26, 2020, and from the first death, on March 12 of the same year, both in Sao Paulo, the country now adds 19,917,855 confirmed cases of covid-19 and totals 556,370 deaths. The Ministry of Health, in its latest epidemiological bulletin, indicated that between Friday and Saturday there was a decrease in the number of infected people (-8.12%) and a reduction in the number of daily deaths (-5.50%) compared to to the previous 24 hours.