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Brazil today exceeded 180,000 deaths from covid-19. In the last 24 hours, the country registered 652 new deaths caused by the disease, raising the total number of deaths to 180,453 since the start of the pandemic. The information comes from the consortium of press vehicles from which Twitter It is part of.
According to a survey by Johns Hopkins University, Brazil is the second country with the highest number of deaths from covid-19 in the world, only behind the United States, which totaled 293,633 confirmed deaths as of early this afternoon. India appears in third place, with 142,186.
Brazil had 52,770 new positive cases of covid-19 from yesterday to today, bringing the number of infected people to 6,836,313 since the beginning of the pandemic.
Health data
The Ministry of Health announced on Friday (11) that Brazil registered 672 new deaths caused by the disease in the last 24 hours, reaching a total of 180,437 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
From yesterday to today, Brazil had 54,428 positive diagnoses for the new coronavirus. Since the start of the pandemic, the number of infected people across the country has risen to 6,836,227.
The federal government also reported that 5,954,745 people recovered from the disease, with another 701,045 being followed.
8-day high on moving average
According to press reports, the average number of deaths in the last seven days was 639, which is a 25% increase compared to 14 days ago. It was the eighth day in a row with an uptrend in the moving average.
The country has 19 states plus the Federal District with an upward trend in the moving average of deaths. Yesterday and Wednesday (9), the country registered the highest number of rising states since the beginning of the consortium’s calculation: 21.
Furthermore, only three states showed a downward trend: Amazonas (-51%), Ceará (-24%) and Maranhão (-38%). While four remained stable.
Among the regions, only the North had stability (-9%). The others showed acceleration: Midwest (30%), Northeast (22%), Southeast (24%) and South (40%).
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 (55%)
- Minas Gerais: acceleration (31%)
- Rio de Janeiro: stable (8%)
- São Paulo: acceleration (28%)
Northern region
- Amapá: acceleration (35%)
- Rondônia: acceleration (16%)
- Roraima: acceleration (57%)
- Tocantins: acceleration (67%)
Northeast Region
- Bay: acceleration (38%)
- Paraíba: acceleration (86%)
- Pernambuco: acceleration (26%)
- Piauí: acceleration (26%)
- Rio Grande do Norte: acceleration (173%)
- Sergipe: acceleration (23%)
Central West Region
- Federal District: acceleration (43%)
- Mato Grosso: acceleration (40%)
- Mato Grosso do Sul: acceleration (103%)
Southern region
- Paraná: acceleration (31%)
- Rio Grande do Sul: acceleration (46%)
- Santa Catarina: acceleration (43%)
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.
