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The world on Monday (28) surpassed the mark of 1 million deaths caused by the new coronavirus, according to Johns Hopkins University. The United States and Brazil are the countries with the highest number of deaths.
According to data from the institution, in addition to the brand, the speed of the pandemic is also striking: although it took the world six months to register the first 500,000 deaths, it only took three months to register the other 500,000. The last 100,000 deaths were recorded in 12 days.
the the five countries with the most deaths are the United States, Brazil, India, Mexico and the United Kingdom. The Brazilian figures are from the consortium of press vehicles, which pointed to more than 142 thousand deaths in the country from covid-19 until 8 pm this Monday.
Global data is from Hopkins monitoring, current as of Monday night (10pm ET).
According to numbers from Johns Hopkins at 10pm this Monday, coronavirus deaths in Brazil and the US, together, accounted for about 34% of the total Covid-19 victims. For comparison, the populations of the two countries together represent only 7% of the total world population.
On the 17th, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned of the acceleration of the pandemic in Europe in September, driven by increases in daily broadcasts, mainly in France and Spain.
The United Kingdom, which also appears with European neighbors in the list of the ten countries with the most deaths in the world, is experiencing a wave of new infections: there were two days of daily records in the last week.
Bay
Bahia registered 49 deaths and 593 new cases of covid-19 in the last 24 hours (growth rate of + 0.2%), according to an epidemiological bulletin released by the State Health Secretariat (Sesab) on Monday afternoon. regular (28). In the same period, 789 patients were considered cured (+ 0.3%).
Of the 306,629 confirmed cases since the start of the pandemic, 293,225 are already considered cured and 6,756 active.
For statistical purposes, the state epidemiological surveillance considers a patient recovered 14 days after the onset of covid-19 symptoms. Active cases are the result of the following calculation: number of total cases, fewer deaths, fewer recovered. The calculations are done automatically.
Confirmed cases occurred in 417 municipalities in Bahia, with a higher proportion in Salvador (28.17%). The municipalities with the highest incidence rates per 100,000 inhabitants were: Ibirataia (6,537.36), Almadina (6,350.66), Madre de Deus (5,973.55), Itabuna (5,971.68), Dário Meira (5,144.72) .
The epidemiological bulletin also records 607,761 discarded cases and 72,647 under investigation. These data represent official notifications compiled by the Center for Strategic Information on Health Surveillance in Bahia (Cievs-BA), together with the municipal databases of Cievs and the Ministry of Health until 5:00 p.m. this Monday.
In Bahia, 25,861 health professionals were confirmed for covid-19. Access the complete newsletter.
Deceased
Today’s epidemiological bulletin counts 49 deaths that occurred on different dates, as shown in the table below. The existence of late registrations and / or accumulation of cases is due to the overload of the investigation teams, since there are diseases of mandatory notification in addition to covid-19.
Another reason is the deepening of epidemiological investigations by municipal and state surveillance in order to avoid distortions or misunderstandings, such as not knowing the cause of death, head trauma or terminal cancer, even if the person is infected with the coronavirus.
Profiles
The total number of deaths from Covid-19 in Bahia since the start of the pandemic is 6,648, which represents a fatality of 2.17%. Among the deaths, 55.97% occurred in men and 44.03% in women.
Regarding race and color, 53.55% corresponded to brown, followed by white with 17.04%, black with 15.25%, yellow with 0.83%, indigenous with 0.12% and there is no information in 13.21% of deaths. The percentage of cases with comorbidity was 72.16%, with a higher percentage of heart and chronic diseases (75.53%).
The complete database of suspected, discarded, confirmed cases and deaths related to the coronavirus is available at https://bi.saude.ba.gov.br/transparencia/.