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Between yesterday and today, the consortium of press vehicles of which Twitter part of it represented 826 new deaths related to the new coronavirus in Brazil, totaling 135,857 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
In the last 24 hours, 39,991 people tested positive for covid-19 in the country. Now there are 4,497,434 infected by the virus.
The moving average of deaths, calculated from data from the last seven days, is 769, which represents stability in relation to the last 14 days.
Federal government data
According to data collected by the Ministry of Health, 135,793 people have already died in Brazil from covid-19. Of these deaths, 858 were confirmed in the last 24 hours.
Between yesterday and today, the federal government registered 39,797 positive tests for the new coronavirus, totaling 4,495,183.
Bolsonaro says ‘staying home’ is for the ‘weak’
The President of the Republic, Jair Bolsonaro (without a party), once again minimized the social isolation measures recommended today by the WHO (World Health Organization) during an act in Sorriso, in Mato Grosso. He called social isolation “a little talk” and said the “stay home” campaign is “for the weak.”
“It didn’t stop during the pandemic. It didn’t get into that soft talk of ‘stay home, the economy we’ll see later,'” he told an audience of ruralistas and agribusiness executives. “This is for the weak. The virus, I always said, was a reality, and we had to face it. Nothing to cower from what we cannot escape from,” he added.
Vehicles gather to obtain 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.
