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Brazil today surpassed the mark of 7 million confirmed cases of covid-19: the total number of infected has increased to 7,042,695 since the beginning of the pandemic, with 68,437 new cases from yesterday to today. The figures would be even higher, but the state of São Paulo faced technical problems and did not send updated data to the Ministry of Health system. The information was collected by the press vehicle consortium of which Twitter It is part of.
The number of deaths from the disease in Brazil in a 24-hour interval is the highest in three months: there were 968 new records, with a total of 183,822 deaths since the start of the pandemic. The country has not seen such high numbers since September 15, when 1,090 deaths were recorded between one day and the next.
According to Johns Hopkins University, Brazil is the third country in the world in number of cases of the disease, only behind the United States and India (with 16,782,029 and 9,932,547 infected, respectively, this afternoon).
State with the highest number of cases (1,341,428) and deaths (44,282) in Brazil, São Paulo again had problems accessing the Ministry of Health system and did not send data on Wednesday. Paulistas faced similar difficulties in early November.
Health data
According to data released by the Ministry of Health on Wednesday (16), the country registered 70,574 positive diagnoses for the new coronavirus in the last 24 hours, reaching a total of 7,040,608 infected since the start of the pandemic.
From yesterday to today, Brazil registered 936 new deaths caused by covid-19. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the total number of deaths caused by the disease across the country has reached 183,735.
Also according to the federal government, 6,132,683 people recovered from covid-19, and another 724,190 were followed.
Lewandowski votes to make the vaccine mandatory
STF (Federal Supreme Court) Minister Ricardo Lewandowski voted today for states and municipalities to determine mandatory vaccination against covid-19, a disease caused by the new coronavirus.
Lewandowski, who is the rapporteur for two actions on the subject, defended in his vote that no one can be physically forced to be vaccinated, but that rights restrictions can be imposed on those who do not get vaccinated, such as the prohibition of the exercise of certain activities or access to some locations.
Following Lewandowski’s vote, the trial has been suspended and will resume tomorrow’s session. The minister was the only one who voted today.
In his vote, Lewandowski reinforced that people cannot be forced to get vaccinated and cited the Rise of Vaccines, which took place in 1904 in Rio de Janeiro, when the population rebelled against a vaccination campaign.
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 the attitudes of the authorities and the president himself during the pandemic cast doubt on the availability of the data and its veracity.
