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.

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 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.

Brazil is the Latin American country affected the most by the COVID-19 pandemic. As of May 2025, the country had reported around 38 million cases. It was followed by Argentina, with approximately ten million confirmed cases of COVID-19. In total, the region had registered more than 83 million diagnosed patients, as well as a growing number of fatal COVID-19 cases. The research marathon Normally, the development of vaccines takes years of research and testing until options are available to the general public. However, with an alarming and threatening situation as that of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists quickly got on board in a vaccine marathon to develop a safe and effective way to prevent and control the spread of the virus in record time. Over two years after the first cases were reported, the world had around 1,521 drugs and vaccines targeting the COVID-19 disease. As of June 2022, a total of 39 candidates were already launched and countries all over the world had started negotiations and acquisition of the vaccine, along with immunization campaigns. COVID vaccination rates in Latin America As immunization against the spread of the disease continues to progress, regional disparities in vaccination coverage persist. While Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico were among the Latin American nations with the most COVID-19 cases, those that administered the highest number of COVID-19 doses per 100 population are Cuba, Chile, and Peru. Leading the vaccination coverage in the region is the Caribbean nation, with more than 406 COVID-19 vaccines administered per every 100 inhabitants as of January 5, 2024.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.

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.

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

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: Serious Cases: New: RT-PCR Tests: by State: Southeast: São Paulo: Result: Inconclusive 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: RT-PCR Tests: by State: Southeast: São Paulo: Result: Inconclusive 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 4.000 Unit in 09 Oct 2020 and a record low of 0.000 Unit in 31 Jan 2025. COVID-19: No. of Tests: Serious Cases: New: RT-PCR Tests: by State: Southeast: São Paulo: Result: Inconclusive 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 million people in Brazil, March, 2023 The most recent value is 1088 new Covid cases per million people as of March 2023, an increase compared to the previous value of 1069 new Covid cases per million people. Historically, the average for Brazil from February 2020 to March 2023 is 4557 new Covid cases per million people. The minimum of 0 new Covid cases per million people was recorded in February 2020, while the maximum of 16392 new Covid cases per million people 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.

Abstract INTRODUCTION Five months after the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Brazil, the country has the second highest number of cases in the world. Without any scientifically proven drug or vaccine available combined with COVID-19’s high transmissivity, slowing down the spread of the infection is a challenge. In an attempt to save the economy, the Brazilian government is slowly beginning to allow non-essential services to reopen for in-person customers. METHODS: In this study, we analyze, based on data analysis and statistics, how other countries evolve and under which conditions they decided to resume normal activity. In addition, due to the heterogeneity of Brazil, we explore Brazilian data of COVID-19 from the State Health Secretaries to evaluate the situation of the pandemic within the states. RESULTS: Results show that while other countries have flattened their curves and present low numbers of active cases, Brazil continues to see an increase in COVID-19 patients. Furthermore, a number of important states are easing restrictions despite a high percentage of confirmed cases. CONCLUSIONS: All analyses show that Brazil is not ready for reopening, and the premature easing of restrictions may increase the number of COVID-19-related deaths and cause the collapse of the public health system.

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

Databases of Brazil referring to cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome by Covid-19 per epidemiological week, variants of SARS-Cov 2 care and beginning of vaccination in the federated units of the country

Abstract: The timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic began on December 31, 2019, in China, with SARS-CoV-2 identified as the etiological agent. This article aims to describe the COVID-19 epidemic’s spatial and temporal dynamics in the first hundred days in the State of Pernambuco, Brazil. We present the evolution in cases and deaths according to epidemiological weeks. We analyzed the series of accumulated daily confirmed COVID-19 cases, with projections for the subsequent 15 days, using the JoinPoint app. This software allows identifying turning points, testing their statistical significance. We also analyze the trend in the spread of COVID-19 to the interior of the state, considering the percent distribution of cases in the state capital, Recife, municipalities in Greater Metropolitan Recife, and the state’s interior, by sets of three weeks, constructing thematic maps. The first hundred days of the COVID-19 epidemic resulted in 52,213 cases and 4,235 deaths from March 12, or epidemiological week 11, until June 20, 2020 (epidemiological week 25). The peak in the epidemic curve occurred in epidemiological week 21 (May 23), followed by deceleration in the number of cases. We initially detected the spread of cases from the city center to the periphery of the state capital and Metropolitan Area, followed by rapid spread to the state’s interior. There was a decrease in the mean daily growth starting in April, but with an average threshold of more than 6,000 weekly cases of COVID-19. At the end of the period, the state’s case series indicates the persistence of SARS-CoV-2 circulation and community transmission. Finally, paraphrasing Gabriel Garcia Marques in One Hundred Years of Solitude, we ask whether we are facing “a pause in the storm or a sign of redoubled rain”.

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.

COVID-19: No. of Tests: Serious Cases: New: Rapid Test: Antigen: by State: North: Amapá 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 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 19.000 Unit in 07 Nov 2020 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 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: Central-West: Distrito Federal: Result: Not Performed 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: Central-West: Distrito Federal: Result: Not Performed data is updated daily, averaging 0.000 Unit from Oct 2013 (Median) to 28 Mar 2025, with 4193 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1.000 Unit in 29 Aug 2024 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: Central-West: Distrito Federal: Result: Not Performed 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: Mild to Moderate Cases: New: by State: North: Acre: 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: by State: North: Acre: Undefined data is updated daily, averaging 0.000 Unit from Jan 2020 (Median) to 29 May 2024, with 1608 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 10.000 Unit in 30 Jul 2020 and a record low of 0.000 Unit in 29 May 2024. COVID-19: No. of Tests: Mild to Moderate Cases: New: by State: North: Acre: 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.