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COVID-19 pandemic in São Paulo | |
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Disease | COVID-19 |
Virus strain | SARS-CoV-2 |
Location | Brazil |
First outbreak | Wuhan, Hubei, China |
Index case | São Paulo |
Arrival date | 26 February 2020
[1] (4 years, 4 months, 2 weeks and 2 days) |
Confirmed cases | 310,517 (3 July 2020) [2] |
Deaths | 15,694 [2] |
Government website | |
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The city of São Paulo in São Paulo state registered the first case of the pandemic in Brazil, a 61-year-old man who had returned from Italy and tested positive for the coronavirus of severe acute respiratory syndrome 2 (SARS-CoV-2). [1]
In the city of São Paulo, field hospitals for the exclusive care of people with COVID-19 were built by the municipal and state governments. Hospitals were established at Pacaembu Stadium, [3] [4] at the Ibirapuera Gymnasium athletics track [5] and the Anhembi Convention Center. [6]
The graphs below show the growth of cases and deaths in the state. On new case and death charts, the bars represent the actual number of notifications per day, while the line is a seven-day moving average to help smooth out anomalies between days and reveal the overall trend. The data are from the Ministry of Health (MH).
This is the list of municipalities with the most confirmed cases, out of a total of 584 municipalities with at least one case, by June 17, 2020: [2]
Position | Municipality | N.° cases | N.° deaths |
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1 | São Paulo | 98132 | 5959 |
2 | Santos | 6553 | 243 |
3 | São Bernardo do Campo | 4902 | 309 |
4 | Guarulhos | 4464 | 500 |
5 | Campinas | 4302 | 185 |
6 | Osasco | 4286 | 418 |
7 | Santo André | 4131 | 207 |
8 | Guarujá | 2444 | 93 |
9 | Jundiaí | 2221 | 127 |
10 | Diadema | 2135 | 137 |
11 | Ribeirão Preto | 2058 | 82 |
12 | Praia Grande | 1952 | 71 |
13 | São Vicente | 1785 | 110 |
14 | Mauá | 1720 | 120 |
15 | Carapicuíba | 1720 | 118 |
16 | Sorocaba | 1700 | 84 |
17 | São José dos Campos | 1700 | 64 |
18 | Barueri | 1694 | 179 |
19 | Mogi das Cruzes | 1497 | 128 |
20 | Taboão da Serra | 1461 | 108 |
21 | São José do Rio Preto | 1352 | 46 |
22 | Piracicaba | 1213 | 55 |
23 | Cubatão | 1188 | 63 |
24 | São Caetano do Sul | 1150 | 60 |
25 | Suzano | 1100 | 90 |
26 | Itaquaquecetuba | 945 | 110 |
27 | Embu das Artes | 910 | 73 |
28 | Cotia | 904 | 67 |
29 | Itapevi | 826 | 107 |
30 | Santana de Parnaíba | 783 | 26 |
31 | Itapecerica da Serra | 755 | 58 |
32 | Francisco Morato | 727 | 36 |
33 | Ferraz de Vasconcelos | 631 | 58 |
34 | Franco da Rocha | 609 | 55 |
35 | Araraquara | 575 | 7 |