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Brazil today exceeded 190,000 deaths caused by covid-19. In the last 24 hours, the country registered 768 new deaths caused by the disease. In total, 190,032 people have died since the pandemic began. The information was compiled by the consortium of press vehicles of which Twitter It is part of.
According to data from Johns Hopkins University, Brazil is the second country with the highest number of deaths from covid-19, only behind the United States (327,853, according to the institution’s disclosure this afternoon). India ranks third, with 146,756 deaths.
The country also exceeded 7.4 million cases of covid-19. From yesterday to today, 57,753 positive tests for the disease were confirmed, bringing the total number of infected since the beginning of the pandemic to 7,424,430. According to Johns Hopkins University, Brazil has the third highest number of cases in the world, behind the United States and India (18,602,862 and 10,123,778, respectively).
There were an average of 737 deaths in the last seven days in Brazil.
Health data
According to information released by the Ministry of Health on Thursday, 762 new deaths caused by covid-19 were confirmed in Brazil in the last 24 hours. The total deaths caused by the disease since the start of the pandemic reached 189,982 according to the folder.
From yesterday to today, 58,428 positive diagnoses for the new coronavirus were registered in the country. Since March, Brazil has had a total of 7,423,945 infected.
Also according to the federal government, 6,448,740 people recovered from covid-19, and another 785,223 are being monitored.
The largest batch with doses of the CoronaVac vaccine arrives in Brazil
The largest batch of the CoronaVac vaccine, the immunizer developed by the Chinese laboratory SinoVac in partnership with the Butantan Institute, arrived this morning in Campinas (SP). There are 5.5 million doses that arrived at the Viracopos International Airport at 5:30 am.
The load consists of 2.1 million doses ready for application and another 2.1 thousand liters of supplies, corresponding to 3.4 million doses that will be filled at the Butantan factory in São Paulo.
Two other shipments are expected to land in the country next week, on December 28 and 30, for a total of 10.8 million doses to start the State Immunization Plan, scheduled to begin on January 25.
“The immunizer achieved an efficacy rate higher than that recommended by the World Health Organization and, with that, we will soon be able to request registration from Anvisa,” said Secretary of State for Health, Jean Gorinchteyn, who accompanied the arrival of the batch next door. Director of Butantan, Dimas Covas.
Vehicles gather to obtain 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.
