The Brazilian health ministry reported a 23 per cent decrease in COVID-19 deaths in September.
For the second consecutive month, Brazil, the epicenter for the coronavirus epidemic in Latin America, saw a drop in Covid 19 fatalities. Health ministry officials documented a 12 per cent drop in coronavirus deaths in August.
The most significant decreases came in the state of São Paulo followed by Minas Gerais and Bahia, according to Brazilian news outlet Extra Globo. Goias and Amazonas were the only states to register an increase in coronavirus deaths for September.
Brazil has generated 144,680 coronavirus deaths, second in the globe behind the United States. The South American nation, which became the epicenter of the epidemic in Latin America, is third behind the United States and India with 4,847,092 confirmed cases.
'I believe that adherence to quarantine and the use of masks contributed to this fall, said Natália Pasternak, president of the Science Question Institute. 'It is important to give these returns to the population to show that their effort has been rewarded, and that it is worth fulfilling the quarantine measures.'
The renown scientists also attributed the lowered death tolls to researchers and doctors who have a better grasp of the deadly virus, which has produced 1,025,075 death and 34,429,410 infections.
'The drop in the number of deaths has two other reasons: the first is the decrease in people susceptible to being infected by the virus,' Pasternak said. 'And the other factor is that there is an important medical learning on how to deal with the disease that decreases the number of deaths, because doctors already know better how the disease acts in the body and what are the ways to intervene and treat it.'
Despite the drop in COVID-19 deaths in August and September, the health ministry said Thursday that Brazil registered 728 additional coronavirus deaths and 36,157 new cases over the last 24 hours.
Health professionals are monitoring certain cities for potential second waves.
