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Brazil passes 49 thousand deaths by coronavirus, shows consortium of press vehicles; is 1,221 in 24 hours
There are 49,090 deaths in Brazil; number approaches 50 thousand. The country had, for the 4th consecutive day, more than 1,200 deaths registered in the 24-hour period. It is the first time that this has happened since the beginning of the pandemic. There are more than 1 million confirmed cases of the disease.
By G1
19/06/2020 20h00 Updated 4 minutes ago
Brazil had 1,221 new deaths registered due to the new coronavirus in 24 hours, shows a survey carried out by the consortium of press vehicles at the state health departments. With that, there are 49,090 deaths by Covid-19 until this Friday (19) in the country. See the data, consolidated at 20h:
49,090 deaths; there were 47,869 until 8 pm on Thursday (18), a difference of 1,221 deaths
1,038,568 confirmed cases; there were 983,359 until Thursday night, that is, there were 55,209 new cases
The country had, for the 4th consecutive day, more than 1,200 deaths registered in the 24-hour period. It is the first time that this has happened since the beginning of the pandemic.
The data released on Wednesday (17) were obtained after an unprecedented partnership between G1, O Globo, Extra, O Estado de S.Paulo, Folha de S.Paulo and UOL, who started to work collaboratively since the 8th to gather the necessary information in the 26 states and the Federal District.
The objective is for Brazilians to know how the evolution and the total number of deaths caused by Covid-19 are, in addition to the consolidated numbers of tested cases with positive results for the new coronavirus.
The partnership between the media was made in response to the Jair Bolsonaro government's decision to restrict access to data on the Covid-19 pandemic. Personalities from the political and legal world, together with entities representing professionals and the press, praised the initiative.
Changes made by the Ministry of Health to the publication of its pandemic balance sheet reduced the quantity and quality of the data for a few days. First, the disclosure time, which was at 5 pm in the administration of Minister Luiz Henrique Mandetta (until April 17), passed to 7 pm and then to 10 pm. This made it difficult or impossible to publish the data on news and printed media. "There is no more story in the Jornal Nacional," said President Jair Bolsonaro, in a mocking tone, when commenting on the change.
The second change was of a qualitative nature. The portal on which the ministry reports the number of dead and contaminated was removed from the air on Thursday night (4). When he returned, after more than 19 hours, he started to present only information about the “new” cases, that is, registered on the same day. The consolidated figures and history of the disease have disappeared since its inception. Links to data downloads in table format were also eliminated from the website, which are essential for the analysis of researchers and journalists, and which fed other dissemination initiatives.
Among the items that are no longer published are: curve of new cases by date of notification and by epidemiological week; accumulated cases by notification date and epidemiological week; deaths by notification date and epidemiological week; and accumulated deaths by notification date and epidemiological week.
On Sunday (7), the government announced that it would return to inform its balance sheets about the disease. But it showed conflicting numbers, released within a few hours.
Only on Tuesday (9) did the ministry release the full data again, obeying the STF order.
This Friday (19), the agency published a new balance sheet. According to the folder, there were 1,206 new deaths and 54,771 new cases, totaling 48,954 deaths and 1,032,913 cases since the beginning of the pandemic - lower numbers than those determined by the consortium.
Brazil passes 49 thousand deaths by coronavirus, shows consortium of press vehicles; is 1,221 in 24 hours
There are 49,090 deaths in Brazil; number approaches 50 thousand. The country had, for the 4th consecutive day, more than 1,200 deaths registered in the 24-hour period. It is the first time that this has happened since the beginning of the pandemic. There are more than 1 million confirmed cases of the disease.
By G1
19/06/2020 20h00 Updated 4 minutes ago
Brazil had 1,221 new deaths registered due to the new coronavirus in 24 hours, shows a survey carried out by the consortium of press vehicles at the state health departments. With that, there are 49,090 deaths by Covid-19 until this Friday (19) in the country. See the data, consolidated at 20h:
49,090 deaths; there were 47,869 until 8 pm on Thursday (18), a difference of 1,221 deaths
1,038,568 confirmed cases; there were 983,359 until Thursday night, that is, there were 55,209 new cases
The country had, for the 4th consecutive day, more than 1,200 deaths registered in the 24-hour period. It is the first time that this has happened since the beginning of the pandemic.
The data released on Wednesday (17) were obtained after an unprecedented partnership between G1, O Globo, Extra, O Estado de S.Paulo, Folha de S.Paulo and UOL, who started to work collaboratively since the 8th to gather the necessary information in the 26 states and the Federal District.
The objective is for Brazilians to know how the evolution and the total number of deaths caused by Covid-19 are, in addition to the consolidated numbers of tested cases with positive results for the new coronavirus.
The partnership between the media was made in response to the Jair Bolsonaro government's decision to restrict access to data on the Covid-19 pandemic. Personalities from the political and legal world, together with entities representing professionals and the press, praised the initiative.
Changes made by the Ministry of Health to the publication of its pandemic balance sheet reduced the quantity and quality of the data for a few days. First, the disclosure time, which was at 5 pm in the administration of Minister Luiz Henrique Mandetta (until April 17), passed to 7 pm and then to 10 pm. This made it difficult or impossible to publish the data on news and printed media. "There is no more story in the Jornal Nacional," said President Jair Bolsonaro, in a mocking tone, when commenting on the change.
The second change was of a qualitative nature. The portal on which the ministry reports the number of dead and contaminated was removed from the air on Thursday night (4). When he returned, after more than 19 hours, he started to present only information about the “new” cases, that is, registered on the same day. The consolidated figures and history of the disease have disappeared since its inception. Links to data downloads in table format were also eliminated from the website, which are essential for the analysis of researchers and journalists, and which fed other dissemination initiatives.
Among the items that are no longer published are: curve of new cases by date of notification and by epidemiological week; accumulated cases by notification date and epidemiological week; deaths by notification date and epidemiological week; and accumulated deaths by notification date and epidemiological week.
On Sunday (7), the government announced that it would return to inform its balance sheets about the disease. But it showed conflicting numbers, released within a few hours.
Only on Tuesday (9) did the ministry release the full data again, obeying the STF order.
This Friday (19), the agency published a new balance sheet. According to the folder, there were 1,206 new deaths and 54,771 new cases, totaling 48,954 deaths and 1,032,913 cases since the beginning of the pandemic - lower numbers than those determined by the consortium.