Brazil registers 15 deaths and more than 5,000 new cases of Covid in the last 24 hours

In the last 24 hours, Brazil recorded 15 deaths from Covid-19 and 5,667 new cases. Thus, the country accumulates, since the beginning of the pandemic, 689,560 deaths from the disease and 35,212,035 positive tests.

The moving average of deaths in the last seven days is 80, up 84%. Thus, Brazil already records a high in the moving average of deaths for the seventh day in a row. Regarding cases, the moving average is at 21,102, up 131% from two weeks earlier.

In all, 14 states released case data, with seven not registering new deaths.

In April of this year, the consortium of press vehicles stopped updating information on vaccination on weekends and holidays. The measure seeks to avoid inaccuracies in the numbers reported to the reader.

The data for the country, collected until 8 pm, are the result of a collaboration between Sheet, UOL, O Estado de S. Paulo, Extra, O Globo and G1 to gather and disseminate numbers related to the coronavirus pandemic. The information is collected daily by the consortium of press vehicles with the state Health Secretariats.

The initiative by the consortium of press vehicles occurred in response to the actions of the Jair Bolsonaro (PL) government, which threatened to withhold data, delayed bulletins about the disease and withdrew information from the air, with the interruption of the disclosure of total cases and deaths.