Brazil reaches 680,000 deaths from Covid

Brazil recorded 210 deaths from Covid and 24,577 cases of the disease, this Saturday (6). With this, the country reached 680,012 lives lost and 34,009,075 people infected with Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic.

The moving average of deaths is now 211 deaths per day and remains stable (no changes of more than 15% compared to two weeks earlier), which has been happening since July 18. The average number of cases is 27,089, which represents a drop of 35%, compared to the last 15 days.

Six states did not update the data this Saturday: Federal District, Minas Gerais, Maranhão, Rio de Janeiro, Roraima and Tocantins.

The country data, collected up to 8 pm, are the result of collaboration between Sheet, UOL, O Estado de S. Paulo, Extra, O Globo and G1 to gather and publish figures related to the coronavirus pandemic. The information is collected by the consortium of press vehicles daily with the State Health Departments.

The consortium of press vehicles stopped updating the numbers of vaccinated against Covid-19 on weekends and holidays. On working days, the data will be updated normally. The measure aims to avoid inaccuracies in the numbers provided to the reader.

The change occurs due to problems in the consolidation of vaccination data by state secretariats. Several states do not update the total number of vaccinated on weekends and holidays, and even those that do sometimes report outdated numbers, which do not correspond to reality and are usually corrected in the following days.

The initiative of the consortium of press vehicles occurred in response to the attitudes of the Jair Bolsonaro (PL) government, which threatened to withhold data, delayed newsletters about the disease and took information from the air, with the interruption of the disclosure of the totals of cases and deaths. In addition, the government has released conflicting data.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​