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The transmission speed of the new coronavrus in Belo Horizonte again it means concern for the municipal executive. With much of the trade relaxed, the mining capital returned to the alert stage of the RT factor, since each infected by the virus transmits the disease, on average, to 1.01 new patients.
The data of the epidemiological and welfare bulletin of the city council published this Tuesday (3).
It is worth remembering that when the index is equal to or greater than the 1 mark, it turns yellow, the alert phase. Since day 14, when it calculated exactly 1, the indicator did not reach such a parameter.
Among the 31 days that made up the month of October, the fator RT was in the yellow phase in 10: between October 5 and 14. The other 21 days were marked by indicators below 1, the green phase.
And the new increase in the indicator may be related to the fall of social isolation in the city. Last Friday (30), the capital of Minas Gerais had only 42.8% of residents in social isolation.
This is the lowest index in the Social isolation in the city since September 4. As of that date, 42.7% of the residents were in quarantine.
However, data exposed by the state government’s COVID-19 panel shows that isolation in BH has already dropped to around 36%.
Cases and deaths
Belo Horizonte reached 1,494 deaths from COVID-19 in this land. The prefectural bulletin reports that 10 deaths from doena It happened since the last bulletin, published this Friday.
It is worth remembering that PBH does not disclose the balance on weekends or holidays.
Regarding the number of cases, the city reached 48,707, a difference of 368 diagnoses from the previous survey. The city has, in addition to almost 1,500 deaths, 1,846 cases under follow-up and 45,367 recovered.
Additionally, there are still 97 deaths under investigation from COVID-19.
In the survey by regions, the Northwest is the one with the highest number of deaths: 196, 16 more than the Western Region. In the sequence, Northeast (179), Venda Nova (178), East (169), Barreiro (165), North (145), Center-South (142) and Pampulha (140) appear.
Among the people who died from COVID-19 in Belo Horizonte, 838 are men and 656 are women. Most of the deaths, 82.6% (1,233), corresponded to the elderly. Another 15.1% (226) were people between 40 and 59 years old; and 2.3% (34) between 20 and 39 years old. There is also the death of a patient between 10 and 14 years old.
Regarding race / color, 50.6% of the people diagnosed with severe cases were brown, 28.2% white, 9.5% black and 0.8% yellow. According to PBH, 10.8% do not yet have a specific breed / color.
In addition, 97.5% of deaths are of people with a risk factor, according to the city council. Only 38 deaths without comorbidities: 31 men and seven women.
Age, heart disease, diabetes, lung disease, obesity, nephropathy, and neurological diseases are the most common comorbidities.
Beds
Other fundamental indicators for decision-making by the city council are the occupancy rates of ICU and nursing beds for COVID-19.
The intensive care index is 30.4% occupancy, while the nursing index is 27.4%. As a result, the two indicators remain in the controlled phase, below 50%.
There was a drop in both parameters, since the occupancy statistics reported in the previous bulletin were 28.7% in the ICUs and 27.7% in the wards.
