For the 3rd time this week, São Paulo state records more than 1,000 Covid-19 deaths in 24 hours

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – This Saturday, March 27, the State Health Secretariat of São Paulo confirmed 1,051 Covid-19 deaths in 24 hours. This is the third time this week that the state of São Paulo has registered more than a thousand deaths from the new coronavirus in a single day.

According to the state government, the number is partly due to the data blocking caused by changes in the federal notification system. This week’s moving daily average (calculated from records for the past seven days) is 618 deaths.

“The change in notification criteria for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in SIVEP hindered records and triggered oscillations in daily data over the course of this week, even with the cancellation of these changes on the 24th by the Ministry of Health,” highlighted governor João Doria in a statement.

The state has 2,410,498 cases, 71,747 deaths, and 240,087 hospitalizations of patients for Covid-19. On Friday, March 26, 30,549 thousand people were hospitalized, of which 12,674 in ICU beds. In hospitalizations, the state has had consecutive increases in the moving daily average of hospitalizations for over a month, 3,398 on Friday. There is a waiting list for beds. Occupancy rates are 92.4% in intensive care and 83.5% in the infirmary wards.

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