Covid-19 deaths increase 173% in two weeks in the city of São Paulo | Saint Paul

The bulletin also shows that, from Thursday (23) to Friday (24), the increase in confirmed cases of Covid-19 in São Paulo was more than double that in Brazil, in the state of São Paulo and worldwide.

The variation in relation to the previous day was 3.7% in the world, 6.5% in the state of São Paulo, 7.6% in Brazil and 17% in São Paulo.

However, the increase in deaths was less in the capital of São Paulo between Thursday and Friday, compared to other places. There was an 8% increase in confirmed deaths in the city from one day to the next. In the state, the increase was 12.4% and, in Brazil, the growth was 10.8%. Globally, deaths from the disease grew 3.4% in one day.

The municipality of São Paulo is the one that sent the most orders to the Adolfo Lutz Institute to carry out coronavirus tests throughout the state. On Wednesday (22), the management of the Butantan Institute said that the queue of tests awaiting analysis in the state was cleared. Despite this, the city says that of the 26,684 samples sent by the municipal secretary to the Adolfo Lutz Institute, the results of 8,574 have yet to be released.

65% of the exams sent by the city council have already been processed; of these, 25% indicated the presence of the virus.

The bulletin also shows that, in the 20 municipal hospitals in the capital, there are 1,035 patients with suspected or confirmed Covid-19. Of these, 298 are in the ICU and 213 use mechanical ventilation.

In the Anhembi and Pacaembu field hospitals, there are another 402 hospitalized patients, 19 in stabilization beds, who are more complex. As of this Saturday, 404 people were discharged after going through field hospitals.

Since Thursday (23), the city has adopted a new protocol for patients with light of the new coronavirus. Patients with mild symptoms of coronavirus for four consecutive days should be referred to the Anhembi field hospital, in the north of São Paulo.

Also according to the folder, mild or moderate patients will be treated by a team of professionals trained in Primary Care (AMA – Ambulatory Medical Assistance and UBS – Basic Health Unit), who will monitor patients for a period of 14 days, counted from the first service provided by the health services.

The state of São Paulo registered 155 new deaths from coronavirus in 24 hours this Saturday (25) and the total number has increased to 1,667 since the start of the pandemic, according to the State Department of Health. There are already 20,004 confirmed cases of the disease in the state, which concentrates the majority of the registries in the country.

The state government said Saturday that Covid-19’s death of a seven-month-old baby with comorbidities (pre-existing disease) was recorded in the capital. It is the first death in the age group between 0 and 10 years, according to the secretariat.

According to the State Department of Health, the number of cities with at least one Covid-19 death increased to 128 on Friday (24), ten more than Thursday. There are 285 municipalities with confirmed cases of the disease, equivalent to 44% of the state’s territory.

The occupation rate of beds for the care of Covid-19 in the ICU in the State of São Paulo is 58.9%. In Greater Greater São Paulo, the rate is much higher: 77.3%.

In the last 24 hours, more than a thousand hospitalized patients were registered, reaching 7,400 suspects and confirmed in hospitals in SP: 2,906 in the ICU and 4,546 in the ward.

Among the fatal victims of Covid-19 are 974 men and 693 women, according to the São Paulo State Department of Health.

Deaths continue to be concentrated in patients 60 years of age and older, who account for 75.4% of deaths.

Observing age groups subdivided every 10 years, mortality is higher between 70 and 79 years (425 of the total), followed by 60-69 years (375) and 80-89 (330). 127 people over the age of 90 also died.

Outside this group of older people, there is also a high mortality among people aged 50 to 59 years (211 of the total), followed by 40 to 49 (120), 30 to 39 (60), 20 to 29 (14) and 10 to 19 (4) and one less than ten years old.

According to this Saturday’s survey, the main risk factors associated with mortality are:

• Heart disease (59.8% of deaths);
• Diabetes mellitus (43.5%);
• Pneumopathy (12.4%);
• Kidney disease (12.3%);
• Neurological disease (11%).

Other factors identified are immunosuppression, obesity, asthma, and hematological and liver diseases. These risk factors were identified in 1,394 people who died from Covid-19 (83.6% of the total).

Private Test Search Triggers

The search for coronavirus exams in São Paulo’s private network has exploded in recent days and has caused laboratories in the capital to invest in tests in the drive-thru scheme or with home collection, which cost between R $ 150 and R $ 450.

High demand, especially by people who do not have symptoms, can cause tests to be lacking in the private system, as has already happened in the public network, according to the Brazilian Association of Diagnostic Medicine (Abramed).