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RIO – Brazil broke, for the second day in a row, the record of deaths from Covid-19 reported in 24 hours. State health departments recorded 1,840 deaths. The country adds 259,402 lives lost by the new coronavirus. The moving average also broke a new record: 1,332. It is the fifth day in a row this has occurred. The estimate is 29% higher than two weeks ago.
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These are the ten days with the highest number of deaths from Covid-19:
- 3/3/2021 with 1,840 deaths
- 02/03/2021 with 1,726 deaths
- 02/25/2021 with 1,582 deaths
- 7/29/2020 with 1,554 deaths
- 4/6/2020 with 1,470 deaths
- 11/02/2021 with 1,452 dead
- 01/28/2021 with 1,439 dead
- 02/24/2021 with 1,433 deaths
- 02/18/2021 with 1,432 deaths
- 4/8/2020 with 1394 deaths
Since 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday, 74,376 new cases have been registered, bringing the total number of infected by the Sars-CoV-2 virus to 10,722,221 in the country. The moving average was 56,602 positive diagnoses, 27% more than the calculation of 14 days ago.
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The “7-day moving average” averages between the number of the day and the previous six. It is compared with an average of two weeks ago to indicate if there is an upward trend, stability or decrease in cases or deaths. The calculation is a statistical resource to be able to see the trend of the data, cushioning the noise “caused by weekends, when the notification of deaths due to a shortage of shift employees is reduced.
In the evaluation of the epidemiologist Ethel Maciel, this high number of deaths from Covid-19 in Brazil is the result of consecutive errors.
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– Errors in the conduct of the pandemic, what we did not do, the lack of information or the misinformation that the government itself spread. All these measures have led us here. We never finished a first wave, we were never in control of the pandemic. Let’s amend a second wave without having finished the first. This was very bad for Brazil, as we have not implemented slowdown measures. We have never been a country that has made a strong policy of wearing masks, of social detachment. Numerous agglomerations, including those promoted by the government.
Microbiologist Natalia Pasternak, president of the Questão de Ciência Institute, explains that the second wave seems more lethal because the virus is affecting more people:
– We see that more people get sick and therefore die. This does not mean that the virus is more lethal, it means that it is more transmissible and that we are transmitting more. Due to human behavior, we transmit more the disease and create new variants with greater transmission capacity. The bad got worse.
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Maciel explains that with many people sick at the same time, the health system collapses faster and at the same time, which explains the peak of deaths at this time.
– United Kingdom, Portugal, France, Spain and Israel, for example, had worse moments in this second wave. And precisely because it is not exclusive to Brazil, we should be better prepared, because we had almost two months between the second wave in Europe and Brazil. We could have prepared ourselves better, closed our borders faster, did more genomic sequencing – enumerates the epidemiologist.
From north to south of the country, cities and states are adopting new lockdown measures to halt the growth of Covid-19 cases and prevent further collapses in the healthcare system. Curfews and traffic restrictions at certain times, closure of the trade in non-essential activities and prohibition of access to parks and beaches are some of the measures adopted by the authorities. São Paulo and Minas Gerais are examples.
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– São Paulo should have handled the most aggressive of the pandemic, but it did not. Should I have waited to get to this point to implement a crash? If we had done this earlier, in a controlled way, we might not have gotten that far (point of collapse). A national shutdown would be very welcome now for at least 14 days in order to reduce the transmission of the disease and have a significant impact on hospitalizations, thus relieving our healthcare system.
Experts point out that, in addition to restrictive measures against the coronavirus, it is also necessary to accelerate vaccination.
– At this moment, Brazil should be negotiating new doses of vaccines, negotiating with the G7 countries that have more doses than population, seeing if there would be a possibility of buying the surplus. Brazil should be behind the doses, because we will only control this pandemic with the vaccine – says Maciel.
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After manifesting to members of the National Confederation of Municipalities (CNM), this Wednesday afternoon, that he would like to close a contract with Pfizer today, the Minister of Health, Eduardo Pazuello, said in a video that the issue is still under negotiation . According to him, “from now on we are going through the process of making this contract as soon as possible.”
– If we do not plan well these purchases (of vaccines), Brazil runs the risk of being an unvaccinated country among its neighbors and other vaccinated countries. This can turn us into an international pariah, shake tourism, international relations, that is, generate a geopolitical and social crisis, in addition to the health crisis. And without vaccines and preventive measures, new variants will emerge that could aggravate the international problem and prohibit us from visiting other countries – analyzes Pasternak.
More than 9 million doses applied
Twenty-two states updated their Covid-19 vaccination data on Wednesday. Across the country, 7,351,265 people received the first dose of an immunizer, equivalent to 3.47% of the Brazilian population. The second dose of the vaccine, in turn, was applied to 2,303,850 people, or 1.09% of the national population.
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The data comes from the consortium formed by O GLOBO, Extra, G1, Folha de S.Paulo, UOL and O Estado de S. Paulo and collects information from state health departments released daily until 8 pm. The media initiative was created from inconsistencies in the data presented by the Ministry of Health.
