Congress and STF declare official mourning for the 10,000 killed by Covid-19 in the country | National newspaper

The flags were raised at half-staff. This Saturday (9), the National Congress declared an official three-day duel for the 10,000 deaths caused by Covid-19.

In a note, the president of the Supreme Federal Court also declared the official mourning for the victims of the disease and said that “the way out of this crisis lies in unity, dialogue and coordinated action, supported by science, among the powers, institutions, the public and and all spheres of the Federation of that vast country. ”

The first death caused by the new coronavirus in Brazil was registered less than two months ago, on March 17, in São Paulo. The country had 291 registered cases.

On March 20, when five deaths were confirmed in one day, we reached 11 deaths, nine in São Paulo and two in Rio. Eight days later, there were 15 deaths in 24 hours and 114 patients had already died in ten states. Another 13 days and, on April 10, when 115 more deaths were confirmed in 24 hours, we reached a thousand victims of the disease.

At that time only Tocantins had not recorded any deaths. This Saturday (9), less than a month later, there are already more than 10,000 deaths, precisely 10,627 fatalities, distributed in all the states of Brazil.

In recent weeks, official daily death records have steadily increased. Of the 115 deaths confirmed on April 10, we went to 217 deaths in one day on April 17. A week later, 357 were confirmed in one day. Another week and the record was already 428 deaths in 24 hours.

And on Friday (8), we reached the record of 751 deaths in 24 hours. Between Friday and Saturday (9), the government registered 730 more victims of Covid-19.

During this period, the coronavirus spread through the metropolitan region of the capitals and the interior of the states. Today, the virus is already present in 2,677 municipalities, where 86% of the Brazilian population lives. Four out of ten cases of the disease are residents of the interior. In 14 states there are already more deaths in these cities than in the capitals.

Epidemiologist Wildo Navegantes talks about what the country needs to do to try to contain the sad expansion of deaths from the coronavirus. “If we continue to maintain social distance as a society, we can flatten the curve and we will not saturate the system and health. On the other hand, it depends directly on the adherence, let’s say, of our great politicians responsible in Brazil, as well as of society, to comply with the recommendations of the technicians, of the surveillance installed in their states, and also of the scientists, and of the governors and mayors who adhere very well to the proposal. We have no other way out. Today, we do not yet have a vaccine available, we do not have an effective treatment. Today, we only have the possibility of social distancing ”, he stresses.

The Ministry of Health stated that it has financed more than 3,000 beds for patients with Covid, which has transferred R $ 5 billion to state health departments, which has distributed millions of personal protection items to doctors and nurses and hopes that more will arrive. masks, and who is looking for suitable solutions for the lack of respirators. When asked about the mourning decrees of the other branches of government, the Planalto Palace declined to comment.