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Brazil today registered 276 deaths from covid-19. With that, the country now totals 190,815 deaths from the disease since the start of the pandemic. The information comes from the press media consortium, of which the Twitter It is part of.
The number of cases has increased by 16,995 records in the last 24 hours. Now Brazil has a total of 7,464,620 infected, according to the press consortium.
Data from the Ministry of Health
According to the Ministry of Health, Brazil registered, in the last 24 hours, 307 new deaths from coronavirus. With this, the country has had 190,795 deaths caused by covid-19 since the start of the pandemic. The number of infected increased to 7,465,806, with 17,246 positive records from yesterday to today.
According to the Federal Government, 6,475,466 people have recovered from covid-19. And another 799,545 patients are being followed up.
New strain of coronavirus
The new strain of coronavirus, initially found in the UK, has been detected today in 5 new countries. Italy, France, Spain, Sweden and Japan confirmed this information. Before, Germany, Denmark, Australia and the Netherlands had the same problem.
There is no evidence that the new strain of the virus causes a more severe version of covid-19, a disease caused by the coronavirus. But there is a suspicion that it is more transmissible and has caused an increase in cases worldwide.
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 by the authorities and the president himself question the availability of the data and its veracity.
