The average lethality rate of people infected with Covid-19 in Rio stands at 4.4% of the total cases to date. Percentage changes with age.
In Rio de Janeiro, the average fatality rate for covid-19 is 4.4% of the total cases (1,074) that have been confirmed so far. The rate changes according to age group. This calculation is according to data released by the State Department of Health on Friday night (3).
Of the 209 confirmed cases, in the range of 30 to 39 years old, there was only one death; The fatality rate thus stands at 0.5%o which puts the fatality rate at 0.5%. In the group between 40 and 49 years old with 214 cases, the rate rises to 1.4%, there were three deaths. And from 50 to 59 years old, the rate more than doubles, to 3.3%, making five deaths out of 153 cases. 
In the group over 60 years old, the risk group, the lethality rate grows to 14.7%. There were 38 deaths among the 259 confirmed cases. As a result, one in seven of the cases died.
According to the data, there are differences in the same risk group. The lethality rate is 11.8%, or 16 deaths among 135 cases, in the range of 60 to 69 years. Already in the range of 70 to 79, the rate is 12.6%, a situation of 10 deaths among the 79 cases. And in the group above 80, lethality is 26.7%, 12 deaths in 45 registered cases. The data also show that the number of deaths in victims who were men are 60% of the total, 28 of the 47 deaths.
Cases in the Municipalities of Rio
The municipality that so far has the highest number of deaths is the city of Rio with 36. In Volta Redonda there were two deaths. And deaths with a record of Covid-19 were also confirmed in Niterói, São Gonçalo, Arraial do Cabo, Petrópolis, Belford Roxo, Miguel Pereira, Rio Bonito, Rio das Ostras and São João de Meriti.
city of Rio
The city of Rio concentrates the largest number of cases, there are 867 in total. And there are still 4,471 people counted as suspects, without confirmation of having the infection. Barra da Tijuca is at the top of the ranking of numbers of confirmed cases of Covid-19, there are 97. The neighborhoods of the south zone appear next: in Copacabana there are 63 cases, in Leblon there are 62, Ipanema 50 and Botafogo 39.
The lethality rate of the municipality is 4.2%. The city's health network accounts for 72 hospitalizations so far, among which 22 people are in the intensive care unit (ICU).
