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RIO – The state of Rio has the highest mortality rate from Covid-19 in Brazil, notes a survey by MonitoraCovid-19, a Fiocruz monitoring tool that tracks the progress of the disease across the country. In total, there are 131 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants, far ahead of São Paulo (91.7 deaths per 100,000), which leads the absolute number of fatalities from the new coronavirus in Brazil.
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The calculation of the death rate per 100,000 or per million inhabitants is often used to weight the impact of deaths caused by Covid-19 according to the demographic context of a particular municipality, state or country. The data from MonitoraCovid-19 indicate that, in the current situation of the epidemic, Rio is the federal unit with the most deaths from the disease, taking into account the proportion of deaths in relation to the population.
At the national level, Rio is followed by six other states with more than 100 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants: Federal District (129.56), Amazonas (116.74), Mato Grosso (116.41), Roraima (116.29), Espírito Santo (106.4 ) and Ceará (104.92).
Last Wednesday, the project warned, through a technical note, that the health system in Rio de Janeiro collapsed with the increase in the number of cases. In the metropolitan region of Rio, 172 people waited in line yesterday for an ICU bed in the Unified Health System (SUS). The occupancy rate of intensive units in the private network is already 98%.
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In the same document, Fiocruz warned that the Covid-19 numbers in the city of Rio are also worrying. For much of the pandemic, the municipality lagged behind São Paulo, the capital, in the daily death rate. In the last two weeks, the situation has been reversed: there are 60 deaths in Rio, compared to 35 in the capital of São Paulo, which has almost twice the population of Rio. The institution warns that Rio may resume the Sars-CoV-2 transmission pattern observed at the beginning of the pandemic.
Rio is close to 23 thousand deaths
According to the latest bulletin of the consortium of press vehicles formed by O GLOBO, Extra, G1, Estado de S. Paulo, UOL and Folha de S. Paulo, the state of Rio has 22,764 deaths from Covid-19 and 361,397 cases of the disease . The state of São Paulo, whose population is almost three times that of Rio de Janeiro, has 42,456 fatalities from the coronavirus and 1,259,704 registered infections.
In Rio, the scientific committee that advises Mayor Marcelo Crivella (Republicans) suggested that some measures of social isolation be resumed amid the increase in cases and deaths. In the state administration, interim governor Cláudio Castro (PSC) announced a program of massive tests that will begin next Friday under the justification of avoiding a “lockdown.”
In São Paulo, Governor João Doria (PSDB) announced last Monday, the day after the second round of municipal elections, the return of all municipalities in the state to the so-called yellow phase, which restricts opening hours and occupation of establishments and events.
