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ABREU, Luiz Carlos de et al. Three urgent needs in the battle against COVID-19: specific medications, information and acceptance of Pandemic. J. Hum. Growth Dev. [online]. 2021, vol.31, n.3, pp.371-375. ISSN 0104-1282.  https://doi.org/10.36311/jhgd.v31.12794.

The first confirmed case of COVID-19 was notified to the Brazilian Ministry of Health on February 26, 2020. On November 20, 2021, by the end of Epidemiological Week-46 (EW-46) 257,168,692 confirmed cases of COVID-19 reported worldwide. Among the countries with the highest number of accumulated cases the United States of America ranks number one (47,701,872), followed by India (34,510,413), Brazil (22,012,150), the United Kingdom (9,857,658), and Russia (9,135,149). Concerning deaths, 5,146,467 were confirmed worldwide until November 20, 2021. The United States was the country with the highest accumulated number of deaths (771,013), followed by Brazil (612,587), India (465,662), Mexico (292,145), and Russia (257,891).

Palabras clave : COVID-19; lethality; mortality; time-series.

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