Brazil recorded 79 new deaths from covid-19 this Sunday, the 3rd. The weekly average of victims, which eliminates distortions between working days and the weekend, stood at 223, above 200 for the sixth day. As of Sunday, the number of new infections reported was 25,549. The moving average of positive tests was 60.7 thousand. In total, Brazil has 672,017 deaths and 32,502,469 cases of the disease.
The daily data are from the consortium of press vehicles formed by Estadão, G1, The Globe, Extra, Leaf and UOL in partnership with 27 state health departments, in a balance sheet released at 8 pm. According to government figures, 30,906,575 people have recovered.
The balance of deaths and cases is the result of the partnership between the six media that started to work, since June 8, 2020, in a collaborative way to gather the necessary information in the 26 states and the Federal District. The unprecedented initiative is a response to the Bolsonaro government’s decision to restrict access to data on the pandemic, but was maintained after government records continued to be released.
This Sunday, the Ministry of Health reported that 18,575 new cases and 53 more deaths from covid-19 were recorded in the last 24 hours. In total, according to the folder, there are 32,490,422 infected people and 671,911 deaths. The numbers are different from those compiled by the consortium of press vehicles mainly because of the time of data collection.
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