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Registered Brazil 287 new deaths from covid-19 in the last 24 hours, according to the consortium of press vehicles of which Twitter It is part of. In total, the country adds 196,029 deaths and 7,732,071 Confirmed cases.
With today’s data, this Sunday (3), the country registers a moving average of 698 deaths in the last seven days. It is the first time since December 31 that this index has fallen below 700 again, in a stability trend of -9% compared to 14 days ago. Under these criteria, in eight states the trend is for the pandemic to accelerate and in another six, to decrease.
The North region remains the only one in a time of acceleration, with a moving average of deaths 48% higher today than 14 days ago.
Death records on weekends and holidays tend to be blocked due to understaffing in state health departments. As a result, data is entered in subsequent days, especially Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
Data from the Ministry of Health
The Ministry of Health registered 293 new deaths caused by covid in the last 24 hours. Since the beginning of the pandemic until this Sunday (3), the disease has killed 196,018 people throughout the country.
From yesterday to today, 17,341 new diagnoses of the new coronavirus have been confirmed in Brazil. The total number of infected people has risen to 7,733,746 since the start of the pandemic.
According to the federal government, 6,813,008 people have recovered from the disease and another 724,720 are under follow-up.
Pope Francis criticizes pandemic travel
Pope Francis criticized those who traveled at the end of the year on Sunday (3). He said that he is “saddened” to see several people thinking about their well-being, on their vacations, while others suffer at a time when the whole world is affected by the new coronavirus pandemic, which has already caused the death of more than one million. of people.
During the Angelus prayer in the library of the Apostolic Palace, with online transmission, the Pontiff criticized the selfish attitudes of society and questioned vacation trips in confined countries to contain the spread of covid-19.
“I read something in the newspapers that made me very sad: in one country, I no longer remember which one, to escape from confinement and take a vacation, more than 40 planes left in the afternoon. ‘These people, who are good people, did not think: Who stayed at home, in the economic problems of so many people that the confinement destroyed, in the sick? Just taking vacations, enjoying your own pleasures. That made me very sad, ”he said.
Vehicles gather for information
In response to the decision of the government of Jair Bolsonaro to restrict access to data on the covid-19 pandemic, the media Twitter, El Estado de S. Paulo, Folha de S.Paulo, O Globo, G1 and Extra formed a consortium to work collaboratively to seek the necessary information directly from the state health departments of the 27 units of the Federation.
The federal government, through the Ministry of Health, should be the natural source of these figures, but the attitudes of the authorities and the president himself during the pandemic cast doubt on the availability of the data and its veracity.
