With 1,085 deaths from Covid in the last 24 hours, Brazil exceeds 640,000 deaths

In the last 24 hours, Brazil recorded 1,085 deaths and 147,734 new cases of Covid-19. The data were released by the National Council of Health Secretaries (Conass) this Wednesday (16)

With the update, the country has a total of 640,744 deaths and 27,806,786 confirmed infections since the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020.

The panel also reported that the moving averages of deaths and infections stood at 814 and 121,622, respectively — the seventh straight day of a decline in the moving rate of cases and the second day of a decline in the moving rate of deaths.

Moving averages consider the average of the last seven days and serve to help reduce possible underreporting on weekends.

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