Coronavirus-complicateddeath in Brazil crossed landmark 450,000 on Tuesday, as delays plague the hard-hit country’s vaccine rollout and epidemiologists alerted a brutal new surge of the virus could becoming.

With 215 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants, Brazil is the hardest-hit country in the Americas, and among the worst affected in the world.

The health ministry reported 2,173 deaths in the past 24 hours, bringing the official number of lives lost to the Covid-19 in Brazil to 452,031, second only to the United States. However, The situation has stabilized to some extent, with an average of 1,854 COVID-19 deaths per day over the past week down from more than 3,000 in mid-April.

But the number of infections has been rising steadily since early May, to an average of 66,000 per day over the past week, making epidemiologists fear the death toll is about to start rising again, too.

Experts say the latest increase in infections is partly caused by state and local authorities lifting pandemic restrictions a month ago when the curve showed a slight decline.

The WHO has declared that mutation a “variant of concern,” like another that emerged in Brazil. Both are feared to be more dangerous than the original strain. The Indian variant has not been confirmed to be spreading locally in Brazil.

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