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RIO – More than 140 thousand people have died from coronavirus in Brazil. The mark was reached this Friday, according to a consortium of press vehicles. In the last 24 hours, 32,670 new cases and 826 new deaths were registered.
According to the bulletin, the country now has 4,692,579 occurrences and 140,709 deaths caused by the pandemic, which reached the country in February.
Infographic: coronavirus figures in Brazil and around the world
The consortium of press vehicles is made up of O GLOBO, Extra, G1, Folha de S.Paulo, UOL and O Estado de S. Paulo and collects information from state health departments.
The moving average of deaths, in turn, is 693. The variation in relation to two weeks is only -4%. Any value between -15% and 15% indicates stabilization.
The “7-day moving average” averages between the number of deaths for the day and the previous six. It is compared to an average of two weeks ago to indicate whether there is an uptrend, stability or a downtrend.
The calculation is a statistical resource to be able to see the trend of the data, drowning out the “noise” caused on weekends, when the notification of deaths is reduced due to the shortage of shift employees.
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Brazil has four states with an upward trend in moving averages of deaths from Covid-19: Amapá, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro and Roraima.
The downward trend is observed in nine states, in addition to the Federal District: Acre, Alagoas, Espírito Santo, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Rondônia, Santa Catarina and Sergipe.
Thirteen federative units have a stable index: Amazonas, Ceará, Goiás, Maranhão, Minas Gerais, Pará, Paraná, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Piauí, Rio Grande do Norte, São Paulo and Tocantins.
In an interview with GLOBO, the former Minister of Health Luiz Henrique Mandetta warned that the country could register 180,000 deaths from coronavirus until the appearance of a vaccine. The number that was thought to reach was 80 thousand dead.
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Exonerated by President Jair Bolsonaro in April, Mandetta wrote a memoir, “A Patient Named Brazil,” in which he recounts the fight against the pandemic behind the scenes. The former minister left the government for insisting on preaching the social distance of the virus and refusing to release chloroquine without evidence of effectiveness.
Bolsonaro released R $ 2.5 billion on Thursday to join the country in the international vaccine alliance against Covid-19, the Covax Facility. According to the government, with this it will be possible to “buy the equivalent to guarantee the immunization of 10% of the population by the end of 2021.”
Covax Facility is an international consortium, coordinated by the World Health Organization (WHO) in association with other entities, to promote multilateral agreements that accelerate the production and distribution of a vaccine against Covid-19.
According to the General Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic, membership “will allow access to the portfolio of nine vaccines under development, as well as others under analysis.”
The Brazilian Society of Pediatrics (SBP) has prepared a document in which it warns of the return to classes in schools, in addition to a series of recommendations for resumption. Experts point out that the development of the protocol for a safe return should consider local epidemiological conditions, such as the low rate of transmission of the new coronavirus and the conditions of the health services infrastructure, as well as the supply of ICU beds.
Among the suggested actions are the use of masks, the maintenance of a distance of up to two meters between the desks, the projection of Covid-19 posters and the reservation of a space in schools to attend to students with symptoms of the disease. . $ 2.5 billion for Brazil to join the international vaccine alliance.
