Covid transmission rate in Brazil is the lowest since April | National newspaper



[ad_1]

The Covid transmission rate in Brazil is currently 0.94, according to the weekly estimate from Imperial College London. It is the lowest rate since April. A rate below 1 indicates a slowdown in contagion and experts believe that the pandemic begins to be controlled when it remains so for at least two consecutive weeks.

In theory, in Brazil, at this time, 100 infected people can transmit the virus to another 94. Two weeks ago, the rate was already below 1, but had risen to 1 last week.

Brazil exceeded 122,000 deaths caused by the pandemic, according to updated data from the press consortium. But Márcio Gomes shows that the moving average of deaths continues to fall.

The state health secretariats registered 1,166 deaths from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours; Since the beginning of the pandemic, there have been 122,681. 41,889 new cases were registered between Monday (31) and Tuesday (1), totaling 3,952,790 infected.

The moving average of deaths is, this Monday, 859 deaths in the last seven days, 13% less than the average of 14 days ago. The daily average of new cases is 39,802 in the last seven days, 4% less than the average of 14 days ago.

Three states have a high mortality rate: Amapá, Rondônia and Tocantins.

Ten states appear stable, because they did not register a variation greater or less than 15% in the moving average more or less: Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul, Mato Grosso, Pará , Maranhão and Piauí.

Thirteen states and the Federal District have a reduction in the daily average of deaths: Santa Catarina, Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais, Federal District, Acre, Amazonas, Roraima, Alagoas, Bahia, Ceará, Pernambuco, Paraíba, Rio Grande do Norte and Sergipe .

See the detailed map of your state

[ad_2]