Overview

• The Health Ministry’s daily bulletin shows 113 notifications nationwide, concentrated in São Paulo with 11 confirmed cases and 90 additional investigations, and updates will post each day at 5 p.m.
• São Paulo delivered 2,000 more ampoules of pharmacological ethanol to referral hospitals, bringing the state stock to 2,500, and activated rapid toxicology testing coordinated by the Adolfo Lutz Institute and LATOF/USP.
• Bahia’s health department reported a death in Feira de Santana attributed to methanol, while the federal count still recognizes one confirmed fatality in São Paulo and 11 others under investigation across several states.
• Federal authorities purchased 4,300 ampoules of ethanol, are buying an additional 150,000, and requested fomepizol supplies and donations through international regulators and the Pan American Health Organization.
• Enforcement intensified in São Paulo with eight arrests this week, 10 venues interdicted, and 4,500 suspect bottles seized, as investigators probe adulterated spirits and the Federal District logged a second suspected case following the rapper Hungria’s hospitalization.