Brazil records highest rolling average of daily new Covid cases since April 1 (June 20)

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The country has 501,918 deaths and 17,926,393 cases, says the media consortium with data from state health secretariats. On average, there were more than 73,000 new diagnoses per day.

Having passed the sad mark of 500,000 victims of Covid, the country’s situation is said to remain worrying before the numbers of the pandemic. On Sunday, June 20, Brazil recorded the highest rolling average of cases in more than two and a half months, indicating that the infection rate is again approaching the worst ever seen.

The country recorded 1,050 deaths from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, bringing the total this Sunday (20th) to 501,918 deaths since the pandemic began.

This brought the rolling average of deaths in the last 7 days to 2,063. Compared to the average 14 days ago, the variation was +24%, showing an upward trend in deaths from the virus. It is the fourth consecutive indication of a high in this comparison and the fifth day that the rolling average has been above 2,000 deaths.

The figures are in the new survey of the Consortium of Press Vehicles on the coronavirus pandemic in Brazil, consolidated at 20h this Sunday. The balance is drawn from the data of the Secretariats of State for Health. The sequence is as follows:

Monday (14): 1.970
Tuesday (15): 1,980
Wednesday (16): 2.007
Thursday (17): 2.005
Friday (18): 2.039
Saturday (19): 2,073
Sunday (20): 2,063

From March 17 to May 10, there were 55 consecutive days when this average was above 2,000. The worst reading during this period occurred on April 12, when the average was 3,125.

In confirmed cases, since the beginning of the pandemic, 17,926,393 Brazilians had or have the new coronavirus, with 45,348 of them confirmed on Sunday.

The rolling average over the last 7 days was 73,200 new diagnoses per day. This represents a change of +17% with respect to cases recorded in two weeks, indicating an upward trend in diagnoses.

This is the highest rolling average of new disease diagnoses since April 1 – when there were 73,993. A few days earlier, on March 27, the worst average ever recorded was 77,128 cases per day. This means that the infection rate, which has been on an upward trend, is back to the level of the worst moment.

States

Increasing (8 states): PR, CE, RO, RJ, SP, GO, PB, MG
Stable (14 states and the Federal District): BA, RS, SE, MA, TO, AM, AP, AL, PA, PI, MT, SC, DF, MS, PE
Dropping (3 states): RN, ES, AC
Not disclosed (1 state): RR

Data from state health secretariats are disputed by the Brazilian president

The media consortium uses data from state health secretariats, the veracity of which is disputed by the Brazilian president.

Jair Bolsonaro insisted in early June that the number of deaths from Covid-19 in Brazil is “inflated” and argued that, in fact, the country might be “one of the countries with the lowest rate of deaths per inhabitant” in the world.

The Brazilian president reiterated that the numbers are fraudulently “inflated” by governors and mayors. This way, he claims, they obtain “more financial resources” from the federal government to combat the pandemic.

With information from G1

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