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RIO – Brazil registered 35,686 new cases and 644 new deaths from coronavirus in the last 24 hours. Since the start of the pandemic, 5,983,089 cases and 168,141 lives lost have been confirmed, according to the media consortium. The moving average for deaths, also verified by the bulletin, was 544. It is the third consecutive day above 500, after lower weeks. This is a growth of 54% compared to 14 days ago. The moving average of cases was 28,635, 77% more than 14 days ago.
In the state of Rio, on Thursday 108 deaths and 2,118 new cases of the new coronavirus were registered, and the moving average of deaths, compared to 14 days ago, had an increase of 152%, which indicates an upward trend in the contagion of the disease, for the third day in a row, because it is well above 15%. In total, there are 334,514 infected and 21,806 lives lost since the start of the pandemic, in March, in Rio de Janeiro.
The data comes from the consortium formed by O GLOBO, Extra, G1, Folha de S.Paulo, UOL and O Estado de S. Paulo and compiles information from state health departments released daily until 8 pm. The media initiative was created from inconsistencies in the data presented by the Ministry of Health.
The increases in the moving averages may have been influenced by the stagnation in the publication of data by some states, especially in the number of deaths, which occurred between November 6 and 10.
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The “7-day moving average” averages between the number of deaths for the day and the previous six. It is compared with an average of two weeks ago to indicate if 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.
Thirteen states have an increasing trend in deaths from Covid-19: Amapá, Espírito Santo, Goiás, Minas Gerais, Paraná, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Norte, Rio Grande do Sul, Rondônia, Roraima, Santa Catarina, São Paulo and Tocantins .
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Four are in stability, in addition to the Federal District: Bahía, Ceará, Pará, Pernambuco.
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Thursday’s Ministry of Health bulletin reported 606 new deaths caused by Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, totaling 168,061 deaths. 35,918 new cases of coronavirus were reported, bringing the number of infected people to 5,981,767 in the country.
Epidemiological tragedy
The National Council of Health Secretaries (Conass) requested a meeting with the Minister of Health, Eduardo Pazuello, to address the “confrontation of the 2nd wave of Covid-19”. The entity affirms, in a letter, that a new escalation of cases may lead to an “epidemiological tragedy of worse proportions” than the first expansion of the disease in Brazil. The secretaries want R $ 3 billion in resources and 20 million in rapid tests, with the materialization of a strategy of extensive testing of the population.
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“Any expression of denial of the risk of a new spread of the disease in the national territory could lead to a scenario of epidemiological tragedy of worse proportions than that experienced in the first expansion of cases. The lives lost so far by the disease cannot be ignored. coronavirus. The best. ” An answer that public authorities can give, in the name of the mourning of thousands of Brazilian families, is an action that coincides with the very serious situation we have, ”says the president of Conass, Carlos Lula, in the letter requesting the meeting with Pazuello.
Vaccine
The potential Covid-19 vaccine developed by pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca in partnership with the University of Oxford (UK) produced a strong immune response in older adults, data released Thursday showed, and the researchers said they hope to release the findings. results. of trials with the advanced stage vaccine until Christmas.
The data, published in part last month but published in its entirety in the medical journal The Lancet on Thursday, suggests that people over the age of 70, who are at higher risk of becoming severe or dying from Covid-19, may create strong immunity.
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This morning, the São Paulo government received the first 120,000 doses of another vaccine, Coronavac, produced by the Chinese company Sinovac. The vaccine is tested and developed in collaboration with the Butantan Institute.
The doses arrived by plane at Guarulhos International Airport and were received during a ceremony attended by the Governor João Doria, the Health Secretary, Jean Gorinchtey, and the director of the Butantan Institute, Dimas Covas.
