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2,349. For the first time in the entire pandemic, Brazil registered more than 2,000 new deaths caused by covid-19 in a 24-hour interval. And this was not the only terrifying number on Wednesday (10) of sad marks for the country. For the twelfth day in a row, we had a record death rate: 1,645 in the last seven days. The country also exceeded 270,000 deaths in the pandemic.
The survey is the consortium of press vehicles of which Twitter it is part, according to data provided by state health departments. And the registration number does not take into account the data of the Federal District, which has not published the update in the last 24 hours.
This is the ninth consecutive day with more than a thousand deaths counted across the country in a 24-hour interval, the longest sequence in the entire pandemic. In total, there have been 270,917 victims since March 2020.
According to data from Johns Hopkins University, a world reference in studies on covid-19, Brazil is the second country with the highest number of deaths from the disease. We are only behind the United States, which has a total of 528,603 victims, according to a poll released this afternoon.
Of the five days with the highest number of victims in the entire pandemic, all occurred in March and within a week (the figures do not indicate when the deaths actually occurred, but when they began to count from the official balances):
- March 10 – 2,349
- March 9 – 1954
- March 3 – 1840
- March 4 – 1,786
- March 5 – 1,760
Eight states counted more than 100 deaths from covid-19 in the last 24 hours. The total number of victims in these states alone reaches 1,765:
- São Paulo – 469
- Goias – 267
- Rio Grande do Sul – 250
- Parana – 243
- Minas Gerais – 219
- Bay – 111
- Santa Catarina – 107
- Ceara – 105
Registration after registration
For the 49th consecutive day, Brazil has a moving average of deaths from covid-19 higher than a thousand, this being the longest period of the entire pandemic. Successive records consolidate a second wave even more lethal than the first. The country has become a “global threat”, according to foreign media, and sees several states facing a chaotic situation in their health systems.
In the first wave:
- Highest number of deaths in 24 h: 1,554 (7/19)
- Highest moving average of deaths: 1,097 (7/25)
- Longest period with an average greater than a thousand: 31 days
- Highest number of deaths in a week: 7679 (from 7/19 to 7/25)
In the second wave:
- Highest number of deaths in 24 h: 2,349 (10/3)
- Highest moving average of deaths: 1,645 (10/3)
- Longest period with an average of more than a thousand: 49 days
- Highest number of deaths in a week: 10,183 (from 2/28 to 6/3)
The 15 highest moving averages of deaths from covid-19 in Brazil were verified in the last 15 days. The top ten are as follows:
- March 10 -1,645
- March 9 – 1,572
- March 8 – 1,540
- March 7 – 1,497
- March 6 – 1,455
- March 5 – 1423
- March 4 – 1361
- March 3 – 1332
- March 2 – 1274
- March 1 – 1223
In the last 24 hours, there have been 80,955 confirmed cases of covid-19 in Brazil, the second largest brand in the entire pandemic. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the total number of infected has risen to 11,205,972.
Health data
In a bulletin released on Wednesday (10) by the Ministry of Health, 2,286 new deaths caused by covid-19 were counted from yesterday to today.
The previous record had been set yesterday, with 1,972 victims. Since March 2020, the total number of deaths caused by the disease has reached 270,656 across the country, according to data from the Ministry of Health.
According to the Ministry, from yesterday to today, 79,876 cases of the disease were confirmed, bringing the total number of infected to 11,202,305 since the start of the pandemic.
According to the federal government, 9,913,739 people have recovered from the disease so far in Brazil, with another 1,017,910 under follow-up.
Doria avoids further restrictions and announces vaccine for ages 72 to 74 on March 22
The governor of São Paulo, João Doria (PSDB), today avoided announcing more restrictive measures to control the covid-19 pandemic, a day after the state reached a new record of daily deaths. In addition to maintaining the rules of the red phase of the São Paulo Plan, Doria announced a next stage of vaccination against the disease caused by the new coronavirus. From the 22nd, older people between 72 and 74 years old will be immunized.
Currently, the state still vaccinates people aged 77 years or older, but the government of São Paulo already announced this week that people aged 76 and 75 will begin to be vaccinated next Monday (15). In the capital, the city of São Paulo will resume vaccination in the drive-thru system, which had been suspended last Saturday (6).
With only essential activities in operation since the weekend and almost 20 health units with 100% occupancy of the beds of the ICU (Intensive Care Unit) for covid-19 in the state, Doria was expected to announce new measures restrictive, such as restrictions on hours of operation. trade operation that remains open. But the governor chose to postpone the possibility of announcing a purple phase of the São Paulo Plan, which has been under study since the end of February.
With increasing hospitalizations, increasing pressure on the healthcare system puts medical care increasingly under threat
Vehicles gather for information
In response to the decision of the government of Jair Bolsonaro to restrict access to data on the covid-19 pandemic, the media Twitter, El Estado de S. Paulo, Folha de S.Paulo, O Globo, G1 and Extra formed a consortium to work collaboratively to seek the necessary information directly from the state health departments of the 27 units of the Federation.
The federal government, through the Ministry of Health, should be the natural source of these figures, but the attitudes of the authorities and the president himself during the pandemic cast doubt on the availability of the data and its veracity.
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