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Brazil today registered 769 new deaths from covid-19 and completed a week with an upward trend in the moving average of deaths. There were 642 deaths on average in the last seven days, representing a 35% variation compared to 14 days ago. The data comes from the press media consortium from which Twitter It is part of.
In total, the country has already recorded 179,801 deaths caused by the disease since the start of the pandemic. There were 53,425 new cases of the disease from yesterday to today throughout the country. Since the start of the pandemic, 6,783,543 tests have been positive for the new coronavirus.
Every day, Brazil approaches the record of 700 deaths on average per week, something that has not happened since September. This accelerated trend has been observed since the second half of November.
Health data
According to data published today by the Ministry of Health, Brazil registered 770 new deaths from covid-19 in the last 24 hours. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the disease has caused 179,765 deaths across the country.
From yesterday to today, there were 53,347 positive diagnoses for the new coronavirus in Brazil. The total number of infected since the start of the pandemic reached 6,781,799.
According to the folder, 5,931,777 people recovered from the disease, with another 670,257 being followed.
21 states and DF accelerating
The consortium’s figures indicate that again Brazil has 21 states plus the Federal District with an upward trend in the moving average of deaths. Yesterday the country registered the same amount of increases. It is the highest number of states in acceleration since the beginning of the calculation by the group of press vehicles.
Only two states registered a drop in the average number of deaths: Amazonas (-57%) and Maranhão (-26%). While three remained stable: Alagoas (0%), Amapá (6%) and Pará (2%).
Among the regions, only the North had stability (-9%). The others showed acceleration: Midwest (58%), Northeast (36%), Southeast (33%) and South (42%).
To measure the situation of deaths from covid-19, experts indicate using the moving average of deaths, which calculates the average of records observed in the last seven days. The operation is the most suitable to observe the trend of the statistics, since it balances the abrupt variations of the numbers throughout the week.
The media consortium adopted this period to verify fluctuations in the moving average. We can speak of a drop in figures when the drop is greater than 15% if it is verified in the last 14 days, in this case, the period of the last two weeks. If the numbers rise more than 15%, the epidemic accelerates. Intermediate values indicate stability.
See the situation by state and in the Federal District:
Southeast region
- Espírito Santo: acceleration (34%)
- Minas Gerais: acceleration (20%)
- Rio de Janeiro: acceleration (28%)
- São Paulo: acceleration (42%)
Northern region
- Rondônia: acceleration (110%)
- Roraima: acceleration (86%)
- Tocantins: acceleration (90%)
Northeast Region
- Bay: acceleration (34%)
- Ceará: acceleration (42%)
- Paraíba: acceleration (72%)
- Pernambuco: acceleration (31%)
- Piauí: acceleration (30%)
- Rio Grande do Norte: acceleration (181%)
- Sergipe: acceleration (41%)
Central West Region
- Federal District: acceleration (40%)
- Goiás: acceleration (37%)
- Mato Grosso: acceleration (77%)
- Mato Grosso do Sul: acceleration (105%)
Southern region
- Paraná: acceleration (38%)
- Rio Grande do Sul: acceleration (47%)
- Santa Catarina: acceleration (41%)
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.
