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In the last 24 hours, Brazil had 676 new deaths from covid-19 and reached a total of 166,743 deaths from the disease since the start of the pandemic. The survey was carried out by the consortium of press vehicles of which the Twitter It is part of.
From yesterday to today, 32,262 new positive tests for the disease were registered. The total number of infected since the beginning of the pandemic has risen to 5,909,002. There were an average of 557 deaths in the last seven days.
Health data
Brazil registered 685 new deaths from covid-19 in the last 24 hours, reaching a total of 166,699 deaths caused by the disease since the start of the pandemic. The data was published today by the Ministry of Health.
According to the folder, there were 35,294 new cases of covid-19 throughout the country from yesterday to today. Since the start of the pandemic, Brazil has reached 5,911,758 infected with the new coronavirus.
In total, 5,361,592 people have recovered from the disease, with another 383,467 being followed.
The transmission rate in the country once again exceeds 1, says Imperial College
Brazil once again registered a record increase in the transmission rate of covid-19, according to data published today by Imperial College. On the 10th of this month, the index was 0.68. According to the data released today, the contagion rate (rt) rose to 1.10.
The numbers indicate that each group of 100 people infected with the coronavirus transmits the virus to another 110 people, that is, an infected person can transmit the disease to more than one person, increasing the chances of contagion.
The increase in the contagion rate accompanies the growth of new cases and deaths from covid-19 that were registered at the end of epidemiological week 46. There was an increase of more than 65% in infections compared to epidemiological week 45. The Index of 0, 68, a week ago, was the smallest registered in the country since April.
The moving average of new infections in Brazil, in the last 7 days, rose 59% in relation to the cases of two weeks ago. This percentage is the largest increase since June 3.
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, the 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 the attitudes of the authorities and the president himself during the pandemic cast doubt on the availability of the data and its veracity.
