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The number of coronavirus cases in Brazil rises to 986; 11 confirmed deaths
According to official data, there are 11 deaths in Brazil, nine in S?o Paulo and two in Rio de Janeiro.
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By Saulo Moreira last update 3/21/2020 at 10:07 am
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Until 9:40 am on this Saturday, March 21, the state health secretariats released 986 confirmed cases of a new coronavirus (Sars-Cov-2) in Brazil in 25 states and the Federal District. According to official data, there are 11 deaths in Brazil, nine in S?o Paulo and two in Rio de Janeiro.
In the afternoon of last Friday, the Ministry of Health updated the figures informing that Brazil has a total of 904 confirmed cases of coronavirus and 11 deaths.
According to information from the ministry, there is already community transmission in some areas of the country. The folder said that there is this type of transmission in two states, three capitals and a region of one state in the South. Community or sustained transmission is that when it is not possible to trace the source of the infection, indicating that the virus circulates among people who have not traveled or had contact with anyone who has been abroad.
According to the executive secretary of the Ministry of Health, Jo?o Gabbardo, the portfolio will not now change the criteria adopted in the mitigation phase, and only people with serious cases will be tested.
The World Health Organization (WHO) recommended, last Friday (13), that countries apply mass tests to find out who is infected and isolate these patients to "flatten the curve" of the spread of Covid-19 disease.
Fired from coronavirus cases in April
According to the Minister of Health, Luiz Henrique Mandetta, during a presentation with President Jair Bolsonaro, coronavirus infections should shoot in Brazil between the months of April and June.
“We must enter in April and start the rapid rise [of infections]. This rapid rise will last in April, in May and in June, when it will start to have a tendency to slow down ”, Luiz Henrique Mandetta, Minister of Health.
According to estimates by the Ministry of Health, cases of transmission of Covid-19, an infection caused by the coronavirus, are expected to slow down in July and, in August, occurrences are expected to begin to fall.
“The month of July, she must start a plateau. In August, this plateau will begin to show a downward trend. September is a deep drop, just as it was a March drop in China. This is the scenario that the Western world is working on ”- Mandetta.
Government promises to release FGTS
According to the Federal Government, new measures will impact the procedures to be carried out in the Guarantee Fund for Time of Service (FGTS) and the Social Integration Program (PIS).
According to government information, no less than R $ 147.3 billion will be earmarked for emergency measures to help the most vulnerable sectors of the economy and groups of citizens, in addition to preventing high unemployment. Of the total amount, R $ 83.4 billion should go to the poorest and / or the oldest population. See the measures announced by the government that impact on FGTS, INSS and PIS:
In presenting the measures, the Minister of Economy, Paulo Guedes, said that the economic system responds to this type of pandemic in a similar way to the human body. “Just like this coronavirus, it affects the most vulnerable slices more. Older people are more vulnerable because their immune defense is lower, ”he said.
“The economy is the same. A resilient economy, with the part of fiscal fundamentals in place, firm structure, structural reforms, it maintains resilience and punctures this wave. Brazil is starting the economic re-acceleration, there is turbulence and it is able to overcome this. It's three, four months. ”
