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Brazil has 46,842 deaths due to coronavirus, shows consortium of press vehicles (13:00 update)
Survey of media consortium points out that the country has 965,512 confirmed cases. On the fourth, for the 2nd consecutive day, the country had more than 1,200 deaths registered in the period of one day.
By G1
18/06/2020 13h00 Updated 7 hours ago
Brazil has 46,842 deaths from coronaviruses confirmed until 1 pm on Thursday (18), points out a survey carried out by the consortium of press vehicles using data from the state health departments.
The consortium released on Wednesday (17), at 8 pm, the 10th balance sheet, with the most updated data from the state departments at that time. Since then, CE, DF, GO, MG, MS, PE, RN and RR have released new data.
See the data updated at 13h this Thursday (18):
46,842 deaths
965,512 confirmed cases
(On Wednesday, 17, at 8 pm, the balance indicated: 46,665 deaths, 1,209 in 24 hours; and 960,309 confirmed cases. For the 2nd consecutive day, the country had more than 1,200 deaths recorded in the period of one day. 7th time the number has passed this level since the beginning of the pandemic)
The data were obtained after an unprecedented partnership between G1, O Globo, Extra, O Estado de S.Paulo, Folha de S.Paulo and UOL, which began to work collaboratively 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.
Partnership
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 taken down on the night of June 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 June 7, the government announced that it would re-report its balance sheets about the disease. But it showed conflicting numbers, released within a few hours.
This Wednesday (18), once again the Ministry of Health released the complete data, obeying the order of the STF. According to the folder, there were 1,269 new deaths and 32,188 new cases, totaling 46,510 deaths and 955,377 cases since the beginning of the pandemic - total numbers lower than those determined by the consortium.