Brazil registered 183 deaths and 10,948 cases of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours. This Tuesday (9), the moving averages of deaths and infections were 241 and 10,843, respectively.
Data are from the National Council of Health Secretaries (Conass). With the update, the country has a total of 609,756 deaths and 21,897,025 confirmed infections since the start of the pandemic in March 2020.
Covid-19 variant in dogs and cats
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Covid-19 drugs approved for emergency use
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Blacks are 1.5 times more likely to die from Covid-19 in Brazil
In Brazil, the risk of mortality from Covid-19 was 1.5 times higher in the black population, despite the higher incidence rate among the white population. Brazilian blacks and browns admitted to hospitals had 1.3 times to 1.5 times the risk of mortality compared to white Brazilians, according to a report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Read more.
Reference: CNN Brasil
