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Brazil registered 1,036 deaths from the new coronavirus and 55,811 cases of the disease in the last 24 hours. Thus, the country reaches 194,976 deaths and 7,675,781 people infected with the new coronavirus.
For the third day in a row, more than a thousand deaths were recorded per day. More than 55,000 cases of Covid have also been reported in the last three days.
The increase in the number of cases and deaths in recent days comes at a time when part of the population has lowered the adoption of health measures, such as social distance and the use of masks.
The country data is the result of an unprecedented collaboration between leaf, UOL, O Estado de S. Paulo, Extra, O Globo and G1 to collect and disseminate figures on the new coronavirus pandemic. Information is collected directly from state Health Departments.
In addition to daily data, the leaf it also shows the so-called moving average. The statistical resource seeks to give a better vision of the evolution of the disease, since it attenuates isolated numbers that deviate from the pattern. The moving average is calculated by adding the result of the last seven days, dividing it by seven.
According to data collected up to 8 pm on Thursday (31), the average number of deaths in the last seven days is 706, an increase of 5.6% from the previous day. The current state of the disease in the country is accelerating, after a short period of stability, with an increase in deaths since the end of November.
The initiative of the consortium of press vehicles arises in response to the attitudes of the government of Jair Bolsonaro (without a party), which threatened to withhold data, delayed bulletins about the disease and took information off the air, with the interruption of the disclosure of the total of cases and deaths. In addition, the government published conflicting data.
The balance published by the Ministry of Health on Thursday (31) points to 56,773 new cases of Covid-19 confirmed in the last 24 hours, with 1,074 new deaths.
Since the beginning of the epidemic in the country, there have been 7,675,973 cases and 194,949 deaths from the disease, according to data from the federal ministry. There are also at least 2,478 deaths under investigation.
