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Brazil registered 301 new deaths from covid-19 in the last 24 hours, according to the consortium of press vehicles of which Twitter It is part of. Eight states are accelerating in the 14-day comparison, while seven indicate a decline.
With this, the country maintains, this Saturday (2), the moving average of 704 deaths in the last seven days, a variation of -8% compared to 14 days ago, which indicates stability. This is the tenth day that the country remains stable, but the third consecutive day that it returns to present the average above 700.
On Thursday (30), the country registered the highest number of deaths in just one day since August, consolidating the increase in the death curve that it has been presenting since mid-November.
It is worth mentioning, however, that death records on weekends and holidays tend to be repressed due to the reduction of personnel in the health departments. As a result, data is entered in subsequent days, especially Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
Eight-state rise
Among the states, eight recorded an acceleration in the variation of 14 days, while seven showed a decrease. Eleven more, the Federal District remains stable.
Three regions of the country are also experiencing stable deaths: the Midwest (-9%), the Northeast (-11%) and the Southeast (-6%). Only the North (44%) showed acceleration, while the South continued to fall (-20%).
Health data
The Ministry of Health registered 314 deaths caused by covid in the last 24 hours. From the beginning of the pandemic until this Saturday (2), the disease has already killed 195,725 people from all over the country.
Brazil remains the second country with the highest absolute number of deaths from the new coronavirus, according to John Hopkins University, which tracks the global evolution of the disease, only behind the United States, which is close to 350,000 deaths.
From yesterday to today they were confirmed 15,827 new diagnoses of the new coronavirus in Brazil. The total number of infected people has risen to 7,716,405 since the start of the pandemic. Thus, according to John Hopkins, the country is the third with the highest total number of cases, behind the United States and India.
According to the federal government, 6,769,420 people recovered from the disease, with another 748,883 being followed.
Experts indicate the calculation of the moving average.
To measure the situation of deaths from covid-19, experts indicate using the moving average of deaths, which calculates the average of records observed in the last seven days. The operation is the most suitable to observe the trend of the statistics, since it balances the sudden variations of the numbers throughout the week.
The media consortium adopted this period to check for fluctuations in the moving average. It is possible to speak of a decrease in figures when the decrease is greater than 15% if it is verified in the last 14 days, in this case, the period of the last two weeks. If the numbers rise more than 15%, the epidemic accelerates. Intermediate values indicate stability.
See the situation by state and in the Federal District:
Southeast region
- Espírito Santo: stable (-1%)
- Minas Gerais: decrease (-16%)
- Rio de Janeiro: stable (-7%)
- São Paulo: stable (-1%)
Northern region
- Amazon: acceleration (81%)
- Para: acceleration (45%)
- Rondônia: acceleration (46%)
Northeast Region
- Alagoas: acceleration (41%)
- Paraíba: stable (-12%)
- Rio Grande do Norte: stable (-4%)
- Sergipe: acceleration (24%)
Central West Region
- Federal District: stable (-11%)
- Mato Grosso: acceleration (24%)
- Mato Grosso do Sul: acceleration (28%)
Southern region
- Rio Grande do Sul: stable (-4%)
- Santa Catarina: decrease (-16%)
