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In the last 24 hours, Brazil registered 461 new deaths from covid-19, totaling 153,690. The information comes from the consortium of press vehicles from which Twitter It is part of.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, 5,223,667 people have been diagnosed with the disease in the country, 22,097 of them between yesterday and today.
The moving average of deaths, calculated from the number of deaths in the last seven days, is 493, which represents a decrease (-25%) in relation to the variation of 14 days ago.
Government data
The Ministry of Health recorded 461 deaths from covid-19 in the country today. The total has reached 153,675 since the pandemic began.
Between yesterday and today, 24,062 people received a positive test for the disease, totaling 5,224,362 infected with the new coronavirus in Brazil.
Italy has the highest number of active covid-19 cases
Today, in Italy, there are 116,935 people with covid-19, the highest number since the beginning of the pandemic. The previous peak of active cases was recorded on April 19, when 108,257 people were being treated.
Between yesterday and today, the country also broke a record for new infections: 10,925 notifications were registered in 24 hours.
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 recent attitudes from the authorities and the president himself question the availability of the data and its accuracy.
