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Brazil already totals 2,178 thousand deaths and 34,429 confirmed cases of Covid-19
Cear? reached 2,955 cases and 162 deaths on Saturday morning (18)
By Portal Gazetaweb, with G1 04/18/2020 09h39
S?o Paulo has almost 1 thousand deaths from the disease and Rio de Janeiro accounts for 341 deaths
New coronavirus already puts pressure on the health system in 4 Brazilian capitals
Until 9 am this Saturday (18), the state health secretariats announced that Brazil has 34,429 confirmed cases of the new coronavirus (Sars-Cov-2) in Brazil, with 2,178 deaths.
Cear? reached 2,955 cases and 162 deaths this morning. Rio de Janeiro reached 341 deaths. The state recorded the largest proportional increase in the disease in the week, 130%.
S?o Paulo has almost 1 thousand deaths from the disease and Rio de Janeiro accounts for 341 deaths. Minas Gerais has 35 deaths and Esp?rito Santo, 28.
Rio Grande do Sul has 24 deaths, Santa Catarina has 31 and Paran?, 44. Cear? reached 155 fatalities, Amazonas has 145 and Maranh?o has 44.
In the early afternoon, Pernambuco confirmed 2,006 cases and 186 deaths in the state. Rio Grande do Norte reached 463 contaminated and 23 deaths.
During the morning, Bahia and Minas Gerais passed the thousand cases, with 36 and 35 deaths respectively. In the state of Bahia, 154 cases are from health professionals.
Cear? reached 149 deaths as a result of Covid-19, and the number of people diagnosed totals 2,684. In the Federal District, the number of cases rose to 754, but there was no increase in the 20 deaths. Amap? reaches 470 cases and maintains the number of 10 deaths.
Early in the morning, Par? confirmed five more deaths of infected patients and has so far registered 26 deaths from Covid-19. There are 557 confirmed cases in the state.
The most recent balance sheet by the Ministry of Health, released on Friday (17), points to 33,682 confirmed cases and 2,141 deaths.
Brazil recorded at least 30 deaths of nursing professionals caused by Covid-19 until this Wednesday (15), according to the balance sheet of the Federal Nursing Council (Cofen). The survey portrays the impact of new coronavirus infections among nurses, technicians and assistants.
Another 4 thousand professionals are on sick leave, 552 with a confirmed diagnosis and more than 3.5 thousand under investigation. Altogether, there are already more than 4,800 complaints for lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) to work, according to Cofen (Cofen).
Ecuadorian province had 6.7 times more deaths in 15 days
The Ecuadorian government acknowledged that there was a gap in death reports in the province of Guaya and that, in the first 15 days of April, 6,703 people died in the region, where 1,000 deaths are normally recorded every fortnight.
Authorities have not been able to determine the causes of all deaths, but they deduce that, in addition to natural deaths, they are victims of complications from Covid-19, a disease caused by the new coronavirus, according to the BBC. With 17.4 million inhabitants, the country confirms the registration of more than 403 deaths and 8.2 cases of infection by Sars-Cov-2.