Brazil records 86 deaths from coronavirus amid problems updating data

Brazil, one of the countries hardest hit by the pandemic in the world, registered 86 deaths and 1,668 cases of the covid-19, numbers much lower than usual, amid the difficulties that regional health secretariats have had to update their data.

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According to the bulletin released this Sunday by the National Council of Health Secretariats (Conass), since the beginning of the pandemic, in February last year, Brazil accumulates 616,830 deaths and 22,198,871 coronavirus infections, which confirm it as the second country with the most victims in the world due to the pandemic and the third with the most cases.

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But the figures for this Sunday, as well as those for Saturday (53 deaths and 3,355 cases), are far below the averages of the last week, 171 deaths and 6,682 infections per day, due to the reduction in the number of officials processing the data. on weekends and technical difficulties.

The regional health secretariats have been facing difficulties in updating their data since Friday, when the computer systems of the Ministry of Health suffered an unresolved hacker attack, which took down several of their pages and erased data such as vaccination of all Brazilians.

Eleven of the 27 states of the country had difficulties updating their data this Sunday, among which Sao Paulo, the most populated and the most affected by the pandemic, Brasilia, Rio Grande do Sul, Bahia and Goiás.

The Ministry of Health reported today in a statement that it was able to successfully recover all the records of the Brazilians vaccinated against COVID and that it found that no information had been lost.

But he added that he is still working “to restore as quickly as possible the systems for the registration and issuance of vaccination certificates,” since the application that issues the so-called “health passport” continues off the air.

Despite registration difficulties, the figures accumulated in the last week show that the pandemic continues to ease rapidly in Brazil and that current averages are at the levels they were in the first weeks of the health crisis.

The average of deaths in the last seven days stood at 171 daily on Sunday, the second lowest level since April 22 of last year (167 deaths per day), and that of infections fell to 6,682 daily, the lowest since April 5. May 2020 (6,118 cases per day).

The current averages are far from those registered between April and June of this year, when Brazil faced the peak of the second wave of the pandemic. The largest Latin American country registered an average of 3,124 deaths per day on April 12 and 77,265 infections per day on June 24.

The current improvement is attributed to the advancement of the immunization campaign, since Brazil already has 65.5% of its 213 million inhabitants with the complete vaccination schedule (the two doses or the single dose vaccine).

Despite the reduction in deaths, infections and even hospitalizations to their lowest levels in 20 months, the country turned on the alerts again due to the appearance of the omicron, a variant of the covid considered more contagious and of which it is already they have registered ten cases in the country.

Faced with the fear generated by the omicron, Magistrate Luis Roberto Barroso, one of the eleven members of the Supreme Court, determined on Saturday that all foreigners who want to enter the country by air or land have to present the vaccination certificate against the covid.

The court decision comes just four days after the Government authorized foreigners to disembark at Brazilian airports without a vaccination certificate but on the condition that they serve a five-day quarantine.

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