RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The governor of São Paulo, João Doria (PSDB), announced Wednesday (14) that the mortality rate for covid-19 in the state fell 46% in the last four months.
The governor attributed the drop in the index to the advance of vaccination against the disease in the state.
The period analyzed by the government, fixed in four months, between March and July this year, starts at the peak of the second wave of contagion of the new coronavirus in the country and extends with the advance of immunization.
According to data from the State System of Data Analysis Foundation (Seade), the transmission of the covid-19 in the state suffered a reduction in the weekly variation – comparing the last seven days with the previous seven.
New cases drop 21.2%; new deaths, 28.9%; and new hospitalizations 12.6%. In the São Paulo Metropolitan Region, new cases dropped 13%; new deaths, 26.4%; and new hospitalizations, 9.7%.
In the state of São Paulo between yesterday (13) and today, 16.237 new cases of contamination by the new coronavirus and 519 deaths by covid-19.
In all, the state counts until this Wednesday (14) 3,896,083 confirmed cases and 133,364 deaths.
The occupation of ICU beds is 65.0% in the state and 60.2% in the capital’s metropolitan region.
According to data from the state government, 29,584,531 million people were targeted in the immunization campaign against covid-19: 6,725,279 million received the two doses and complied with the vaccine schedule, and 21,985,272 million received only the first dose scheduled and, therefore, should return to a health post to receive the second.
The government also informs that 873,980 were immunized with the single-dose covid vaccine. 16.42% of the São Paulo population completed the complete vaccination scheme.