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Brazil records more than 1,000 deaths from Covid after more than 5 months

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Brazil has again recorded more than 1,000 deaths from Covid. This Friday (4), 1,074 lives were lost. It is the highest value since August 17 of last year, when records showed 1,137 deaths.

169 days have passed since August 19, 2021, the last time the country had recorded more than 1,000 deaths in 24 hours.

This Friday, 219,298 cases of Covid were also recorded, the fifth highest value of the entire pandemic. The record in a single day occurred on Thursday (3), with 286,050 infections.

With updated data, Brazil has lost 631,069 lives and 26,319,033 people infected by Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic.

The moving average of deaths continues to grow and now stands at 732 deaths per day, up 160% from two weeks ago. It is the highest average since August 23 of last year, when it was 766 deaths per day.

The moving average of cases has also increased from two weeks ago and now stands at 182,696, an increase of 30%.

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

Source: Folha

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