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.

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

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.

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.

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 MDS: COVID-19: Confirmed Cases: To Date data was reported at 39,258,562.000 Person in 03 May 2025. This records an increase from the previous number of 39,256,092.000 Person for 02 May 2025. Brazil MDS: COVID-19: Confirmed Cases: To Date data is updated daily, averaging 34,663,731.000 Person from Feb 2020 (Median) to 03 May 2025, with 1895 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 39,258,562.000 Person in 03 May 2025 and a record low of 0.000 Person in 25 Feb 2020. Brazil MDS: COVID-19: Confirmed Cases: To Date 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.HLA001: Disease Outbreaks: COVID-19: Confirmed Cases. Current day data is released daily between 6PM and 7PM Brazil Time. Weekend data are updated following Monday morning, Hong Kong Time.

Citation

Full description of the data at https://doi.org/10.1590/SciELOPreprints.362

Full dataset daily updated

The most updated dataset is available at https://github.com/wcota/covid19br and https://covid19br.wcota.me/

Description

Confirmed cases and deaths by day, using official information given by Ministério da Saúde, data at the municipal level by Brasil.IO and the most recent reported cases by @CoronavirusBra1.

The data contains the IBGE identifier, GPS coordinates of the cities and temporal evolution of the number of cases and deaths.

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Content

From Novel Corona Virus 2019 Dataset:

2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) is a virus (more specifically, a coronavirus) identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness first detected in Wuhan, China. Early on, many of the patients in the outbreak in Wuhan, China reportedly had some link to a large seafood and animal market, suggesting animal-to-person spread. However, a growing number of patients reportedly have not had exposure to animal markets, indicating person-to-person spread is occurring. At this time, it’s unclear how easily or sustainably this virus is spreading between people - CDC

This dataset has information on the number of cases in Brazil. Please note that this is a time series data and so the number of cases on any given day is a cumulative number.

The data is available from Jan/30/2020, when the first suspect case appeared in Brazil.

Acknowledgements

1. Avisos/Advertising - Please, before start working with this data, take a break to read this discussion.
2. Plataforma COVID Brazil - Public platform to share informations about the COVID-19 cases in Brazil.

Country level datasets

If you are interested in know about another country, please follow these Kaggle datasets:

• Novel Corona Virus 2019 Dataset - https://www.kaggle.com/sudalairajkumar/novel-corona-virus-2019-dataset
• India - https://www.kaggle.com/sudalairajkumar/covid19-in-india
• South Korea - https://www.kaggle.com/kimjihoo/coronavirusdataset
• Italy - https://www.kaggle.com/sudalairajkumar/covid19-in-italy
• USA - https://www.kaggle.com/sudalairajkumar/covid19-in-usa
• Switzerland - https://www.kaggle.com/daenuprobst/covid19-cases-switzerland
• Indonesia - https://www.kaggle.com/ardisragen/indonesia-coronavirus-cases
• Turkey - https://www.kaggle.com/gkhan496/covid19-in-turkey
• France - https://www.kaggle.com/lperez/coronavirus-france-dataset
• Tunisia - https://www.kaggle.com/ghassen1302/coronavirus-tunisia
• Japan - https://www.kaggle.com/tsubasatwi/close-contact-status-of-corona-in-japan

Inspiration

1. Changes in number of cases over time
2. Change in cases over time at state level

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.

Dataset

This dataset was created by Luiz Fernando

Released under CC0: Public Domain

Contents

ABSTRACT Objective: To estimate the reporting rates of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases for Brazil as a whole and states. Methods: We estimated the actual number of COVID-19 cases using the reported number of deaths in Brazil and each state, and the expected case-fatality ratio from the World Health Organization. Brazil’s expected case-fatality ratio was also adjusted by the population’s age pyramid. Therefore, the notification rate can be defined as the number of confirmed cases (notified by the Ministry of Health) divided by the number of expected cases (estimated from the number of deaths). Results: The reporting rate for COVID-19 in Brazil was estimated at 9.2% (95%CI 8.8% - 9.5%), with all the states presenting rates below 30%. São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, the most populated states in Brazil, showed small reporting rates (8.9% and 7.2%, respectively). The highest reporting rate occurred in Roraima (31.7%) and the lowest in Paraiba (3.4%). Conclusion: The results indicated that the reporting of confirmed cases in Brazil is much lower as compared to other countries we analyzed. Therefore, decision-makers, including the government, fail to know the actual dimension of the pandemic, which may interfere with the determination of control measures.

MDS: COVID-19: Confirmed Cases: To Date: Central West: Dist Federal data was reported at 963,555.000 Person in 03 May 2025. This records an increase from the previous number of 963,449.000 Person for 02 May 2025. MDS: COVID-19: Confirmed Cases: To Date: Central West: Dist Federal data is updated daily, averaging 839,020.000 Person from Feb 2020 (Median) to 03 May 2025, with 1895 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 963,555.000 Person in 03 May 2025 and a record low of 0.000 Person in 06 Mar 2020. MDS: COVID-19: Confirmed Cases: To Date: Central West: Dist Federal 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.HLA001: Disease Outbreaks: COVID-19: Confirmed Cases. Current day data is released daily between 6PM and 7PM Brazil Time. Weekend data are updated following Monday morning, Hong Kong Time.

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.

Based on a comparison of coronavirus deaths in 210 countries relative to their population, Peru had the most losses to COVID-19 up until July 13, 2022. As of the same date, the virus had infected over 557.8 million people worldwide, and the number of deaths had totaled more than 6.3 million. Note, however, that COVID-19 test rates can vary per country. Additionally, big differences show up between countries when combining the number of deaths against confirmed COVID-19 cases. The source seemingly does not differentiate between "the Wuhan strain" (2019-nCOV) of COVID-19, "the Kent mutation" (B.1.1.7) that appeared in the UK in late 2020, the 2021 Delta variant (B.1.617.2) from India or the Omicron variant (B.1.1.529) from South Africa.

The difficulties of death figures

This table aims to provide a complete picture on the topic, but it very much relies on data that has become more difficult to compare. As the coronavirus pandemic developed across the world, countries already used different methods to count fatalities, and they sometimes changed them during the course of the pandemic. On April 16, for example, the Chinese city of Wuhan added a 50 percent increase in their death figures to account for community deaths. These deaths occurred outside of hospitals and went unaccounted for so far. The state of New York did something similar two days before, revising their figures with 3,700 new deaths as they started to include “assumed” coronavirus victims. The United Kingdom started counting deaths in care homes and private households on April 29, adjusting their number with about 5,000 new deaths (which were corrected lowered again by the same amount on August 18). This makes an already difficult comparison even more difficult. Belgium, for example, counts suspected coronavirus deaths in their figures, whereas other countries have not done that (yet). This means two things. First, it could have a big impact on both current as well as future figures. On April 16 already, UK health experts stated that if their numbers were corrected for community deaths like in Wuhan, the UK number would change from 205 to “above 300”. This is exactly what happened two weeks later. Second, it is difficult to pinpoint exactly which countries already have “revised” numbers (like Belgium, Wuhan or New York) and which ones do not. One work-around could be to look at (freely accessible) timelines that track the reported daily increase of deaths in certain countries. Several of these are available on our platform, such as for Belgium, Italy and Sweden. A sudden large increase might be an indicator that the domestic sources changed their methodology.

Where are these numbers coming from?

The numbers shown here were collected by Johns Hopkins University, a source that manually checks the data with domestic health authorities. For the majority of countries, this is from national authorities. In some cases, like China, the United States, Canada or Australia, city reports or other various state authorities were consulted. In this statistic, these separately reported numbers were put together. For more information or other freely accessible content, please visit our dedicated Facts and Figures page.

COVID-19: No. of Tests: New: Northeast: Rio Grande do Norte 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: New: Northeast: Rio Grande do Norte data is updated daily, averaging 0.000 Unit from Jan 2020 (Median) to 29 May 2024, with 1610 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 5,701.000 Unit in 24 May 2021 and a record low of 0.000 Unit in 29 May 2024. COVID-19: No. of Tests: New: Northeast: Rio Grande do Norte 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: New: Rapid Tests: Antigen: by State: North: Amapá: Health Professional: Positive data was reported at 0.000 Unit in 31 May 2024. This stayed constant from the previous number of 0.000 Unit for 30 May 2024. COVID-19: No. of Tests: New: Rapid Tests: Antigen: by State: North: Amapá: Health Professional: Positive data is updated daily, averaging 0.000 Unit from Jan 2020 (Median) to 31 May 2024, with 1613 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 9.000 Unit in 03 Jun 2020 and a record low of 0.000 Unit in 31 May 2024. COVID-19: No. of Tests: New: Rapid Tests: Antigen: by State: North: Amapá: Health Professional: 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.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

MDS: COVID-19: Confirmed Cases: To Date: South data was reported at 8,307,028.000 Person in 03 May 2025. This records an increase from the previous number of 8,306,862.000 Person for 02 May 2025. MDS: COVID-19: Confirmed Cases: To Date: South data is updated daily, averaging 7,357,982.000 Person from Feb 2020 (Median) to 03 May 2025, with 1895 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 8,307,028.000 Person in 03 May 2025 and a record low of 0.000 Person in 09 Mar 2020. MDS: COVID-19: Confirmed Cases: To Date: South 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.HLA001: Disease Outbreaks: COVID-19: Confirmed Cases. Current day data is released daily between 6PM and 7PM Brazil Time. Weekend data are updated following Monday morning, Hong Kong Time.

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.