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.

This dataset comprises data on new and accumulated confirmed cases and death episodes for each Brazilian municipality, by epidemiological week.

Criteria used for confirmed cases (mild and moderate cases): * Laboratory * Clinical epidemiological * Clinical criterion * Clinical image Death episodes refer to COVID-19 confirmed cases that progressed to death. Reference date for cases: * symptom onset date (preferably) * notification or testing date (for missing data) Reference date for deaths: * death or case closing date * notification or testing date (for missing data) Age groups follow a five-year window. Phase and peak variables according to the epidemiological week in which the cases and deaths occurred.

This dataset was used as part project - Evaluating Effects of Social Inequalities on the COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil. Maria Yury Ichihara and colleagues at the Centre for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (Cidacs) at Fiocruz in Brazil created a social disparities index to measure inequalities relevant to the COVID-19 pandemic, such as unequal access to healthcare, to identify regions that are more vulnerable to infection and to better focus prevention efforts.

In Brazil, markers of inequality are associated with COVID-19 morbidity and mortality. They developed the index with available COVID-19 surveillance data, hosted on the Cidacs platform, and built a public data visualisation dashboard to share the index and patterns of COVID-19 incidence and mortality with the broader community. This enabled health managers and policymakers to monitor the pandemic situation in the most vulnerable populations and target social and health interventions.

Permissions to use this dataset must be obtained from the Ministry of Health Brazil.

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.

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.

New Covid cases per month in Brazil, March, 2023 The most recent value is 234246 new Covid cases as of March 2023, an increase compared to the previous value of 230156 new Covid cases. Historically, the average for Brazil from February 2020 to March 2023 is 981087 new Covid cases. The minimum of 1 new Covid cases was recorded in February 2020, while the maximum of 3529428 new Covid cases was reached in February 2022. | TheGlobalEconomy.com

COVID-19: No. of Tests: Mild to Moderate Cases: New: Rapid Tests: Antibody: by State: North: Rondônia: Undefined data was reported at 0.000 Unit in 29 May 2024. This stayed constant from the previous number of 0.000 Unit for 28 May 2024. COVID-19: No. of Tests: Mild to Moderate Cases: New: Rapid Tests: Antibody: by State: North: Rondônia: Undefined data is updated daily, averaging 0.000 Unit from Jan 2020 (Median) to 29 May 2024, with 1609 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 11.000 Unit in 29 Jul 2020 and a record low of 0.000 Unit in 29 May 2024. COVID-19: No. of Tests: Mild to Moderate Cases: New: Rapid Tests: Antibody: by State: North: Rondônia: Undefined 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.HLA002: Disease Outbreaks: COVID-19: Number of Tests: Mild to Moderate Cases.

As of July 18, 2022, Omicron was the most prevalent variant of COVID-19 sequenced in Brazil. By that time, the share of COVID-19 cases corresponding to the Omicron BA.5 variant amounted to around 73.74 percent of the country's analyzed sequences of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. A month earlier this figure was equal to about 33 percent of the cases studied in Brazil. The Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 - the virus causing COVID-19 - was designated as a variant of concern by the World Health Organization in November 2021. Since then, it has been rapidly spreading, causing an unprecedented increase in the amount of cases reported worldwide. Find the most up-to-date information about the coronavirus pandemic in the world under Statista’s COVID-19 facts and figures site.

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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

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

Brazil COVID-19: No. of Tests: Serious Cases: New: RT-PCR Tests: Male data was reported at 1.000 Unit in 28 Mar 2025. This records an increase from the previous number of 0.000 Unit for 27 Mar 2025. Brazil COVID-19: No. of Tests: Serious Cases: New: RT-PCR Tests: Male data is updated daily, averaging 0.000 Unit from Feb 2020 (Median) to 28 Mar 2025, with 1883 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 340.000 Unit in 17 Aug 2020 and a record low of 0.000 Unit in 27 Mar 2025. Brazil COVID-19: No. of Tests: Serious Cases: New: RT-PCR Tests: Male 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.

COVID-19: No. of Tests: Serious Cases: New: Rapid Test: Antigen: by State: North: Amapá: 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: Rapid Test: Antigen: by State: North: Amapá: 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: Rapid Test: Antigen: by State: North: Amapá: 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.

COVID-19: No. of Tests: New: Rapid Tests: Antigen: by State: Central West: Distrito Federal: Male data was reported at 0.000 Unit in 30 May 2024. This stayed constant from the previous number of 0.000 Unit for 29 May 2024. COVID-19: No. of Tests: New: Rapid Tests: Antigen: by State: Central West: Distrito Federal: Male data is updated daily, averaging 0.000 Unit from Jan 2020 (Median) to 30 May 2024, with 1611 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 212.000 Unit in 14 Aug 2021 and a record low of 0.000 Unit in 30 May 2024. COVID-19: No. of Tests: New: Rapid Tests: Antigen: by State: Central West: Distrito Federal: Male 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.HLA002: Disease Outbreaks: COVID-19: Number of Tests: Mild to Moderate Cases. This tests series refers to mild to moderate cases suspected of COVID-19

COVID-19: No. of Tests: Serious Cases: New: by State: Northeast: Rio Grande do Norte: 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: by State: Northeast: Rio Grande do Norte: 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: by State: Northeast: Rio Grande do Norte: 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.

Brazil COVID-19: No. of Tests: New: Health Professional: Positive data was reported at 0.000 Unit in 22 Mar 2024. This stayed constant from the previous number of 0.000 Unit for 21 Mar 2024. Brazil COVID-19: No. of Tests: New: Health Professional: Positive data is updated daily, averaging 4.000 Unit from Feb 2020 (Median) to 22 Mar 2024, with 1488 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 3,831.000 Unit in 22 Jun 2020 and a record low of 0.000 Unit in 22 Mar 2024. Brazil COVID-19: No. of Tests: New: Health Professional: Positive data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Ministry of Health. The data is categorized under High Frequency Database’s Disease Outbreaks – Table BR.HLA002: Disease Outbreaks: COVID-19: Number of Tests: Mild to Moderate Cases. This tests series refers to mild to moderate cases suspected of COVID-19

COVID-19: No. of Tests: Mild to Moderate Cases: New: Rapid Tests: Antigen: by State: Central West: Mato Grosso do Sul: Undefined data was reported at 0.000 Unit in 30 May 2024. This stayed constant from the previous number of 0.000 Unit for 29 May 2024. COVID-19: No. of Tests: Mild to Moderate Cases: New: Rapid Tests: Antigen: by State: Central West: Mato Grosso do Sul: Undefined data is updated daily, averaging 0.000 Unit from Jan 2020 (Median) to 30 May 2024, with 1609 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 5.000 Unit in 02 Jun 2021 and a record low of 0.000 Unit in 30 May 2024. COVID-19: No. of Tests: Mild to Moderate Cases: New: Rapid Tests: Antigen: by State: Central West: Mato Grosso do Sul: Undefined 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.HLA002: Disease Outbreaks: COVID-19: Number of Tests: Mild to Moderate Cases.

COVID-19: No. of Tests: Serious Cases: New: RT-PCR Tests: by State: North: Rondônia: Result: Waiting for Result 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: North: Rondônia: Result: Waiting for Result 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 8.000 Unit in 10 Aug 2020 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: North: Rondônia: Result: Waiting for Result 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.

COVID-19: No. of Tests: Serious Cases: New: Rapid Test: Antigen: by State: North: Acre: Result: Positive data was reported at 0.000 Unit in 31 Jan 2025. This stayed constant from the previous number of 0.000 Unit for 30 Jan 2025. COVID-19: No. of Tests: Serious Cases: New: Rapid Test: Antigen: by State: North: Acre: Result: Positive data is updated daily, averaging 0.000 Unit from Aug 2002 (Median) to 31 Jan 2025, with 8191 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1.000 Unit in 18 Nov 2024 and a record low of 0.000 Unit in 31 Jan 2025. COVID-19: No. of Tests: Serious Cases: New: Rapid Test: Antigen: by State: North: Acre: Result: Positive 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.