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In 24 hours, Brazil registered 340 new deaths caused by covid-19, according to the consortium of press vehicles. With this update, the death toll has reached 159,902 victims since the pandemic began in the country.
Data considered vitally important by specialists to indicate the trend of a week, the weekly moving average of deaths is 425 deaths. The result is 12% lower than that observed 14 days ago, indicating a stabilization of the disease. However, six states have a large number of victims of the disease.
As for the cases, the vehicle consortium revealed that 5,534,731 Brazilians were infected with the coronavirus. In the last 24 hours, 15,203 cases were registered. It remains to be remembered that weekend statistics tend to show smaller figures because the supply of databases is slower.
When evaluating regional statistics, Santa Catarina, Espírito Santo, Acre, Amazonas, Ceará and Amapá show an upward trend in deaths. The Federal District and nine other states tend to reduce the incidence of the pandemic.
The figures are different from those revealed by the Ministry of Health, which pointed to 407 new deaths in the last 24 hours. The new cases according to official figures were 18,947. The Brazilian data comes at a time when England and Portugal declared a lockdown.
The leaders of the two countries took this step due to escalating cases of the disease. According to the British health authority, there is a risk that the number of deaths will exceed the peak of the first wave of the pandemic. This is the second time that England has declared a blockade; the first was in March and April.
In response to the decision of the government of Jair Bolsonaro to restrict access to data on the covid-19 pandemic, the media UOL, O Estado de S. Paulo, Folha de S.Paulo, O Globo, G1 and Extra They 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 recent attitudes by the authorities and the president himself question the availability of the data and its veracity.
