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Brazil registered 690 new deaths caused by covid-19 this Saturday (12) and reached nine days with an upward trend in the moving average of deaths. There were 643 deaths on average in the last seven days, representing a 23% variation compared to 14 days ago. The data comes from the press media consortium from which Twitter It is part of.
In total, the country has already recorded 181,143 deaths caused by the disease since the start of the pandemic. There were 44,282 new cases of the disease from yesterday to today across the country. Since the beginning of the pandemic, there have been 6,880,595 positive tests for the new coronavirus.
Every day, Brazil approaches the record of 700 deaths on average per week, something that has not happened since September. This accelerated trend has been observed since the second half of November.
High in 17 states + DF
In total, the country has 17 states plus the Federal District with an upward trend in the moving average of deaths. Between Wednesday and Thursday, the country registered the highest number of rising states since the beginning of the consortium’s calculation: 21.
Among the regions, only the North indicated stability (-9%). The others showed acceleration: Midwest (24%), Northeast (22%), Southeast (21%) and South (38%).
Health data
The Ministry of Health announced today that Brazil has registered 686 new deaths from covid-19 in the last 24 hours. With this, the country reaches 181,123 deaths from the disease since the beginning of the pandemic.
From yesterday to today, Brazil had 43,900 positive diagnoses for the new coronavirus. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the number of infected people across the country has risen to 6,880,127.
According to John Hopkins University, which follows the evolution of the pandemic in the world, Brazil continues to be the third country with the most cases of the disease, behind the United States and India, and the second in total number of deaths, only behind the United States. USA.
In today’s bulletin, the federal government also reported that 5,969,706 people have recovered from the disease and a further 729,298 are being followed.
Complete street and commerce
Despite the increase in cases, the country continues to experience agglomeration in several places. In São Paulo, the Brás and 25 de Março shopping centers, in the center, are full of people shopping for the holidays.
With a sunny Saturday in Rio de Janeiro and on the coast of São Paulo, beaches full of bathers were also recorded.
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 abrupt variations of the numbers throughout the week.
The media consortium adopted this period to verify fluctuations in the moving average. We can speak of a drop in figures when the drop 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: acceleration (41%)
- Minas Gerais: acceleration (40%)
- Rio de Janeiro: stable (5%)
- São Paulo: acceleration (24%)
Northern region
- Amapá: acceleration (35%)
- Rondônia: stable (15%)
- Roraima: acceleration (57%)
- Tocantins: acceleration (36%)
Northeast Region
- Bay: acceleration (39%)
- Paraíba: acceleration (93%)
- Pernambuco: acceleration (22%)
- Piauí: acceleration (23%)
- Rio Grande do Norte: acceleration (150%)
Central West Region
- Federal District: acceleration (40%)
- Mato Grosso: acceleration (44%)
- Mato Grosso do Sul: acceleration (95%)
Southern region
- Paraná: acceleration (27%)
- Rio Grande do Sul: acceleration (46%)
- Santa Catarina: acceleration (42%)
