Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Brazil - statistics & facts
On March 11, 2020, when the World Health Organization declared the novel coronavirus a pandemic, Brazil was still a week away from reporting its first death due to COVID-19. Nevertheless, the largest nation in Latin America soon claimed global attention, as the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths in the country grew exponentially, reaching the third and second highest figures worldwide, respectively, only behind the U.S. and India. Less than one and a half years after the first case was reported – on February 26, 2020 – Brazil had surpassed the threshold of 18 million cases and 500 thousand deaths. As of November 2023, the South American country had recorded close to 38 million cases. By that date, around 88 percent of the population in Brazil had received at least one dose of a vaccine against COVID-19, being the one produced by Pfizer/BioNTech the type of vaccine with the highest number of doses confirmed in the country.
