COVID-19 was first detected in Brazil on March 1, 2020, making it the first Latin American country to report a case of the novel coronavirus. Since then, the number of infections has risen drastically, reaching approximately 38 million cases by May 11, 2025. Meanwhile, the first local death due to the disease was reported in March 19, 2020. Four years later, the number of fatal cases had surpassed 700,000. The highest COVID-19 death toll in Latin America With a population of more than 211 million inhabitants as of 2023, Brazil is the most populated country in Latin America. This nation is also among the most affected by COVID-19 in number of deaths, not only within the Latin American region, but also worldwide, just behind the United States. These figures have raised a debate on how the Brazilian government has dealt with the pandemic. In fact, according to a study carried out in May 2021, more than half of Brazilians surveyed disapproved of the way in which former president Jair Bolsonaro had been dealing with the health crisis. In comparison, a third of respondents had a similar opinion about the Ministry of Health. Brazil’s COVID-19 vaccination campaign rollout Brazil’s vaccination campaign started at the beginning of 2021, when a nurse from São Paulo became the first person in the country to get vaccinated against the disease. A few years later, roughly 88 percent of the Brazilian population had received at least one vaccine dose, while around 81 percent had already completed the basic immunization scheme. With more than 485.2 million vaccines administered as of March 2023, Brazil was the fourth country with the most administered doses of the COVID-19 vaccine globally, after China, India, and the United States.Find the most up-to-date information about the coronavirus pandemic in the world under Statista’s COVID-19 facts and figures site.

Brazil recorded 37511921 Coronavirus Cases since the epidemic began, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). In addition, Brazil reported 702116 Coronavirus Deaths. This dataset includes a chart with historical data for Brazil Coronavirus Cases.

As of September 21, 2023, São Paulo was the Brazilian state where the majority of fatal COVID-19 cases occurred, with approximately 180,887 deaths recorded as of that day. Rio de Janeiro trailed in second, registering around 77,344 fatal cases due to the disease. As of August 2, 2023, the number of deaths from COVID-19 in Brazil reached around 704,659 people. For further information about the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, please visit our dedicated Facts and Figures page.

Data of COVID-19 in Brazil

Souce: https://covid.saude.gov.br/ Updated in 16 November 2020

City level open access data from 26 States and the Federal District and from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) [20], the Department of Informatics of Brazilian Public Health System – DATASUS, Ministry of Health, the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) and from Brazil.io. Data from all 5,570 cities in Brazil were included in the analysis. COVID-19 data included cases and deaths reported between February 26th, 2020 and February 4th, 2021. The following outcomes were computed: a) days between the first case in Brazil until the first case in the city; b) days between the first case in the city until the day when 1,000 cases were reported; and c) days between the first death in city until the day when 50 deaths inhabitants were reported. Descriptive analyses were performed on the following: proportion of cities reaching 1,000 cases; number of cases at three, six, nine and 12 months after first case; cities reporting at least one COVID-19 related death; number of COVID-19 related deaths at three, six, nine and 12 months after first death in the country. All incidence data is adjusted for 100,000 inhabitants.The following covariates were included: a) geographic region where the city is located (Midwest, North, Northeast, Southeast and South), metropolitan city (no/yes) and urban or rural; b) social and environmental city characteristics [total area (Km2), urban area (Km2), population size (inhabitants), population living within urban area (inhabitants), population older than 60 years (%), indigenous population (%), black population (%), illiterate older than 25 years (%) and city in extreme poverty (no/yes)]; c) housing conditions [household with density >2 per dormitory (%), household with garbage collection (%), household connected to the water supply system (%) and household connected to the sewer system (%)]; d) job characteristics [commerce (%) and informal workers (%)]; e) socioeconomic and inequalities characteristics [GINI index; income per capita; poor or extremely poor (%) and households in informal urban settlements (%)]; f) health services access and coverage [number of National Public Health System (SUS) physicians per inhabitants (100,000 inhabitants), number of SUS nurses per inhabitants (100,000 inhabitants), number of intensive care units or ICU per inhabitants (100,000 inhabitants). All health services access and coverage variables were standardized using z-scores, combined into one single variable categorized into tertiles.

COVID-19: No. of Tests: Serious Cases: New: RT-PCR Tests: by State: Southeast: São Paulo: Ignored data was reported at 0.000 Unit in 28 Mar 2025. This stayed constant from the previous number of 0.000 Unit for 27 Mar 2025. COVID-19: No. of Tests: Serious Cases: New: RT-PCR Tests: by State: Southeast: São Paulo: Ignored data is updated daily, averaging 0.000 Unit from Aug 2002 (Median) to 28 Mar 2025, with 8247 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 0.000 Unit in 28 Mar 2025 and a record low of 0.000 Unit in 28 Mar 2025. COVID-19: No. of Tests: Serious Cases: New: RT-PCR Tests: by State: Southeast: São Paulo: Ignored data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Ministry of Health. The data is categorized under Brazil Premium Database’s Health Sector – Table BR.HLA003: Disease Outbreaks: COVID-19: Number of Tests: Serious Cases.

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In past 24 hours, Brazil, South America had N/A new cases, N/A deaths and N/A recoveries.

Brazil COVID-19 Vaccination: Dose data was reported at 548.000 Dose in 07 Dec 2024. This records a decrease from the previous number of 2,972.000 Dose for 06 Dec 2024. Brazil COVID-19 Vaccination: Dose data is updated daily, averaging 29.000 Dose from Mar 2020 (Median) to 07 Dec 2024, with 1721 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 607,642.000 Dose in 07 Jul 2021 and a record low of 0.000 Dose in 14 Apr 2024. Brazil COVID-19 Vaccination: Dose data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Ministry of Health. The data is categorized under Brazil Premium Database’s Health Sector – Table BR.HLA006: Disease Outbreaks: COVID-19: Vaccination.

Total Covid cases per million people in Brazil, March, 2023 The most recent value is 173044 cases per million as of March 2023, an increase compared to the previous value of 171956 cases per million. Historically, the average for Brazil from February 2020 to March 2023 is 90410 cases per million. The minimum of 0 cases per million was recorded in February 2020, while the maximum of 173044 cases per million was reached in March 2023. | TheGlobalEconomy.com

Context

The original COVID-19 dataset included information about tested patients, containing early-stage symptoms, comorbidities, demographics information, and symptoms description. The patients were tested by applying viral or rapid tests. The raw data was collected by the public health agency of the city of Campina Grande, Paraíba state, in Northeast Brazil. Such a public agency is informed by all the COVID-19 exams performed in the city of Campina Grande. The health agency employees removed patient identification, and the data made available were reused to enable this study.

This dataset relates to the study entitled "Machine Learning Classification Models for COVID-19 Test Prioritization in Brazil".

Acknowledgements

Viana dos Santos Santana, Íris ; C. M. da Silveira,, Andressa; Sobrinho, Alvaro; Chaves e Silva, Lenardo ; Dias da Silva, Leandro ; Freire de Souza Santos, Danilo ; Candeia, Edmar ; Perkusich, Angelo (2021), “A Brazilian dataset of symptomatic patients for screening the risk of COVID-19”, Mendeley Data, V5, doi: 10.17632/b7zcgmmwx4.5

Brazil COVID-19 Vaccination: 2nd Dose: Female data was reported at 11.000 Dose in 07 Dec 2024. This records a decrease from the previous number of 170.000 Dose for 06 Dec 2024. Brazil COVID-19 Vaccination: 2nd Dose: Female data is updated daily, averaging 2,876.000 Dose from Mar 2020 (Median) to 07 Dec 2024, with 1721 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1,221,574.000 Dose in 09 Sep 2021 and a record low of 0.000 Dose in 13 Oct 2024. Brazil COVID-19 Vaccination: 2nd Dose: Female data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Ministry of Health. The data is categorized under Brazil Premium Database’s Health Sector – Table BR.HLA006: Disease Outbreaks: COVID-19: Vaccination.

This dataset contains three brazilian open COVID-19 datasets from June 1st, 2020. The Flu-Like Syndrome dataset contains several information about flu-like syndrome (Síndrome Gripal) patients. It contains mostly mild Flu-Like Syndrome cases, including COVID-19 confirmed cases. There is not an official codebook for this dataset, but portuguese speakers can easily infer the meaning of the columns.

The SARS dataset (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or Síndrome Respiratória Aguda Grave - SRAG - in portuguese) contains mostly cases where hospitalization is needed (even though some of the cases from this dataset didn't need hospitalization. These cases can be filtered using the column "HOSPITA"). Part of the patients from this dataset are confirmed COVID-19 cases (the column "CLASSI_FIN" is 5 for confirmed cases). There is an official codebook for this dataset (SARS_Codebook.pdf), but unfortunately it is written in portuguese.

The Officially Reported Cases dataset contains only confirmed COVID-19 cases that were officially reported by the government. It contains the number of cases and deaths reported until each day for each Brazilian city.

When analyzing the data, beware of notification lag: These datasets contains the cases reported until June 1st, but notified cases usually take some days to be reported. This explains the small number of cases for dates close to June 1st in the Flu-Like Syndrome and SARS datasets.

All datasets shared here are open datasets that were shared by the Brazilian Ministry of Health. The Flu-Like Syndrome and SARS datasets were downloaded from https://opendatasus.saude.gov.br, and the dataset for officially reported cases was downloaded from https://covid.saude.gov.br/. However, the Flu-Like Syndrome and the officially reported cases datasets were removed from these websites on June 7, 2020, and June 6, 2020, respectively.

Brazilian COVID-19 Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (PCI), 2021

Installed in April 2021, the COVID-19 Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (PCI) aimed to investigate omissions and irregularities committed by the federal government during the COVID pandemic in Brazil, which resulted in the death of more than 660,000 Brazilians and placed it among the countries with the most deaths caused by COVID-19.

This dataset has 3,397,933 tweets, splitted in days and weeks, extracted over a period of 26 weeks. It contains textual data from tweets, data about users (@ and description), and data about interactions between users. It can be used to improve textual cleaning techniques, toxic speech detection, clustering, and even Social Network Analysis and social graph studies. Data format is parquet.

This dataset is part of a paper[1], published by its author, which aimed to do a social network analysis related to the CPI topic, to investigate evidence of political polarization. The source codes and jupyter notebooks are available on GitHub.

[1] Uniting Politics and Pandemic: a Social Network Analysis on the COVID Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry in Brazil. WebMedia 2022. Lucas Raniére J. Santos, Leandro B. Marinho, Caludio E. C. Campelo.

The number of COVID-19 vaccination doses administered per 100 people in Brazil rose to 226 as of Oct 27 2023. This dataset includes a chart with historical data for Brazil Coronavirus Vaccination Rate.

The vaccination campaign against COVID-19 in Brazil started on January 2021. Over two years later, around 88 percent of the country's population had received at least one dose of a vaccine against the disease. As of that date, approximately 81.8 percent of Brazilians were fully vaccinated with the recommended amount of doses for immunization. Brazil ranked fifth among Latin American countries with the largest number of COVID-19 vaccination doses per 100 population.

Find the most up-to-date information about the coronavirus pandemic in the world under Statista’s COVID-19 facts and figures site.

As of May 2, 2023, Brazil was the country with the highest number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Latin America and the fifth highest in the world, reaching over 37 million patients. By state, São Paulo ranked first, with more than 6.6 million confirmed cases of the disease as of September 21, 2023. Minas Gerais followed, with over 4.2 million confirmed cases of coronavirus. For further information about the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, please visit our dedicated Facts and Figures page.

Brazil recorded 16779136 Coronavirus Recovered since the epidemic began, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). In addition, Brazil reported 617271 Coronavirus Deaths. This dataset includes a chart with historical data for Brazil Coronavirus Recovered.

In April 2021, Brazil reached a new record of deaths due to COVID-19 in a day, with more than 4,200 thousand fatalities reported within 24 hours. That same month, the country's gross domestic product (GDP) was expected to increase by 3.17 percent during the year, down from a growth of nearly 3.5 percent forecast two months earlier. Since then, expectations have improved, with a forecast growth of 5.27 percent as of the third week of July.By December 2020, Brazil's GDP was forecast to decrease by 4.4 percent during 2020, an improvement in comparison to the 6.5 percent decrease forecast by the beginning of July. This figure, which had remained stable at a 2.3 percent forecast growth during the first months of the year, decreased for five consecutive months amidst the outbreak of COVID-19 in Brazil. For further information about the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, please visit our dedicated Facts and Figures page.

This dataset contains key characteristics about the data described in the Data Descriptor Dataset on SARS-CoV-2 non-pharmaceutical interventions in Brazilian municipalities. Contents:

    1. human readable metadata summary table in CSV format


    2. machine readable metadata file in JSON format