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RIO – Brazil registered 18,276 cases and 181 new deaths from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours. As a result, 6,070,419 are infected and 169,197 lives lost since the beginning of the pandemic. The information comes from the 8:00 p.m. bulletin prepared by the press vehicles.
The consortium, made up of O GLOBO, Extra, G1, Folha de S.Paulo, UOL and O Estado de S. Paulo, collects information from state health departments.
The moving average of cases was 29,976 and that of deaths reached 484.
Infographic: coronavirus figures in Brazil and around the world
The “7-day moving average” averages between the number of deaths for the day and the previous six. It is compared to an average of two weeks ago to indicate whether 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 due to a shortage of employees in service is reduced.
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Brazil remains the second country with the most deaths, only behind the United States. In several cases, the country ranks third, after being overtaken by India, which has more than 9 million records.
The United States surpassed the barrier of 12 million registered cases on Saturday. The country, the most affected in the world by the pandemic in absolute numbers, has 12,019,960 cases, six days after reaching the 11 million mark. The epidemic, which left more than 255,000 dead in the United States, is going through an “exponential” phase in the country, according to health officials.
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Globally, the cases registered by Covid-19 have already reached 57,974,667 cases and 1,378,411 deaths, according to a Johns Hopkins University project that collects pandemic data in all countries.
Tests run the risk of losing their validity
The Ministry of Health has stored 6.8 million RT-PCR tests, considered the “gold standard” for the diagnosis of Covid-19, with an expiration date between December of this year and January 2021. The imminence of The exams should be discarded due to the next due date, it was revealed by the State of S. Paulo this Sunday.
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The pace of testing in Brazil falls short of the goal set by the Ministry of Health of applying 42.6 million PCR tests by the end of this year. So far, only 5 million, or 20% of the target, have been processed out of a total of 9.3 million kits distributed to public laboratories in the country.
To make matters worse, the pace of testing has slowed since September. Maintaining the average number of tests processed, the country will only reach the goal of 42.6 million tests conducted in August 2022, as shown by GLOBO.
In a note, the Ministry of Health stated that the company Seegene, provider of the tests, is already in contact with the National Agency for Sanitary Surveillance (Anvisa) to send the studies of “extended stability” of the tests that the folder has in stock. . In other words, an extension of the validity period with a guarantee that the exam has not lost its security properties.
The G20 calls for cooperation on access to vaccines
The G20 countries called on Saturday, the first day of their annual summit, a global effort to facilitate access to coronavirus vaccines and fight its devastating economic consequences.
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“While we are optimistic about progress in the development of vaccines, therapies and diagnostic tools for Covid-19, we must work to create the conditions for cheap and equal access to these tools for all,” said King Salman in his speech at opening. , under the supervision of Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman, the de facto leader of the country.
According to a British study conducted with healthcare professionals at the forefront of the fight against the new coronavirus pandemic, people who have had Covid-19 are unlikely to contract the new coronavirus for at least six months after their first infection. .
“This is very good news as we can be sure that, at least in the short term, most people who have had Covid-19 will not have it again,” said David Eyre, a professor in the health department of the Nuffield population at the University of Oxford. one of the study leaders.
