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Paraná recorded on Thursday (5) more 910 cases of coronavirus and 25 deaths caused by covid-19. The new victims are 11 women and 14 men aged between 29 and 88 years.
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According to the State Department of Health (Sesa), however, problems have been identified with data on deaths from illness in Curitiba. The file says it has found about 80 deaths that would not have been reported by the capital city since October 2, and points out that the municipality is responsible for providing care and recording this information which is used in the preparation of the state daily bulletin.
“Sesa underlines the importance of correct, faithful and transparent information”. Requested, the Municipal Secretariat of Health (SMS) of Curitiba states that the information is not proceeding, that it sends spreadsheets with all deaths to Sesa daily, including the 80 indicated by the state folder, and that the cases are checked one for one to identify state-reported differences (read the full note below).
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Therefore, according to the epidemiological bulletin of Sesa, the official numbers of the pandemic are 214,918 confirmed cases – 164,514 already cured of the infection – and 5,242 deaths from Covid-19. 5,417 tests are underway to confirm the diagnosis of the disease. The employment rate of adults in SUS intensive care for Covid-19 is 63%. 1,485 people in Paraná are hospitalized in public and private networks, in all types of beds.
See what Curitiba City Hall says
The Municipal Health Department of Curitiba informs that it does not proceed with the information attributed to Sesa that Curitiba would incorrectly record the death data of the residents of the capital from Covid-19.
Since the start of the pandemic, Curitiba has provided transparency of information, with daily bulletins and lives to present data and report to society.
The official system for hospitalization for respiratory symptoms is the SIVEP – national database of the Ministry of Health, the reports in this system are carried out by the hospitals and daily qualified by the Epidemiology Center of the Municipality.
The Municipal Health Department of Curitiba sends the spreadsheet of all cases and deaths daily to the 2nd Regional Healthcare and Sesa. In addition to the hospital census, in addition to periodically sending the Covid data recorded to Esaúde / Curitiba via API (Data transfer between operating systems).
The 80 deaths reported have already been accounted for via SMS and the divergence reported by Sesa was presented only as of yesterday (4/11/2020). The cases are being checked one by one to identify the differences in information reported by Sesa.
It is not true that Curitiba does not correctly record the deaths, since in the daily bulletin of Curitiba, today there are 1,504 deaths with Covid registered, while in the bulletin published by Sesa there are only 1,407 confirmed deaths. It is also not true that we have not reported death figures since October 2.
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