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Brazil today surpassed the mark of 6.5 million confirmed cases of covid-19. With the registration of 47,435 new cases of the disease from yesterday to today, the country reached a total of 6,534,951 positive diagnoses since the beginning of the pandemic. The survey was carried out by the consortium of press vehicles of which the Twitter It is part of.
According to Johns Hopkins University, Brazil is the third country in the world in number of covid-19 cases, only behind the United States and India, which registered 14,218,080 and 9,571,559 infected, respectively, until this afternoon of Friday. fair (4). Today, the world has exceeded 65 million cases of coronavirus and 1.5 million deaths.
In the last 24 hours, the country registered 674 new deaths from covid-19 and it has 18 states with an accelerating trend in the moving average of deaths. The data come from the consortium of press media from which Twitter It is part of. Since the start of the pandemic, the number of deaths caused by the disease has reached 175,981.
The moving average of deaths, calculated based on the daily deaths in the last seven days, is 569, which represents a growth (variation of 19%) in relation to the last 14 days.
The states with the highest moving average of deaths are: Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais, São Paulo, Mato Grosso do Sul, Mato Grosso, Acre, Amapá, Rondônia, Roraima, Tocantins, Ceará, Maranhão , Paraíba, Rio Grande do Norte and Sergipe.
Health data
According to data published on Friday (4) by the Ministry of Health, the country registered 46,884 new positive diagnoses for the disease in the last 24 hours, bringing the number of infected to 6,533,968 since the start of the pandemic.
From yesterday until today, Brazil had 694 new deaths caused by the disease. Since the beginning of the pandemic, 175,964 deaths from covid-19 have been recorded.
Also according to information from the federal government, 5,744,369 people recovered from the disease, with another 613,635 being followed.
The law allows vaccines without Anvisa registration
Law 13979, approved by the National Congress in February 2020 and sanctioned by President Jair Bolsonaro (without a party), may authorize one of his biggest political opponents today, the Governor of São Paulo, João Doria (PSDB), to determine vaccination. of São Paulo with CoronaVac, produced in association by the Sinovac company, from China, and the Butantan Institute.
Today, without presenting all the cards he would have up his sleeve, Doria announced that there is no need to wait until March, as the federal government intends to do, and that he will begin vaccinating São Paulo residents in January. He promised to present the details of the plan on the 7th of next month. For Globo, Health Secretary Jean Gorinchteyn was a bit more cautious and said that vaccination should start in the first two months.
The law even allows, in its article 3, subsection III, that vaccination is mandatory (but the constitutionality of the obligation will be evaluated by the STF from the next 11).
The authorization to vaccinate without authorization from Anvisa is given by article 3 of the law that establishes that “the authorities may adopt, within the scope of their powers, among other” measures such as “vaccination and other prophylactic measures”, according to the point ” d “of the legal text.
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, 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.
