Brazil reaches 80% of the adult population with a complete vaccination schedule against Covid

Brazil reached, this Monday (22), the mark of 80% of the adult population with the primary scheme of the complete Covid vaccine.

According to data from the consortium of press vehicles, there are already, considering the entire population, 129,703,343 million Brazilians with the second dose or single dose applied.

The state that has the highest percentage of adults who have received both doses or a single dose is São Paulo, with 94.44%. At the other end is Roraima, with only 44,42%.

Brazil registered 1,039,841 doses of vaccines against Covid, this Monday. According to data from the state health departments, there were 143,090 first doses and 575,013 second. 27,707 single doses and 294,031 booster doses were also recorded.

Even those who received two doses or one dose of the Janssen vaccine must maintain basic care, such as wearing a mask and social distance, experts say.

Vaccination in Brazil began on January 17 of this year, when nurse Monica Calazans, 54, from Instituto de Infectologia Emílio Ribas, received the first dose in the country. At the time, the vaccine available was Coronavac, made through a partnership between the Chinese Sinovac and the Butantan Institute.

The start of the vaccine campaign was marked by delays in the delivery of immunizers from AstraZeneca-University of Oxford, which is currently the most used in the country. The slowdown also had as a crucial component the delay by the Jair Bolsonaro (non-party) government to acquire immunization agents such as Pfizer and Janssen.

Despite the bleak start, last Tuesday (16) Brazil surpassed the United States in the total percentage of the population with a complete primary vaccine regimen. The US government, on the other hand, has faced difficulties in convincing a portion of citizens to get vaccinated.

For Jamal Suleiman, from the Instituto de Infectologia Emílio Ribas, it is an “exceptional achievement” achieved now. “It is a disease that this government insisted that there was no need to have a vaccine, it took a long time to buy it, to include it in the national immunization program. This achievement shows that the Brazilian population really believes that this is the effective strategy for us to get out of this pandemic in an organized and safe way. It is a victory for the Brazilian people.”

Renato Grinbaum, a member of the SBI (Brazilian Society of Infectology), says that the high percentage of the vaccinated population in Brazil, especially in the state of São Paulo, indicates the possibility of a cooling down of the pandemic, with the flexibility of many activities. “But this pandemic is not yet over. We are seeing an increase especially in Germany and other countries,” he says.

According to Grinbaum, making the use of masks more flexible, for example, should be done with great care. “Eventually, in open environments and without crowding. In case of any agglomeration, in a closed environment, it might be a little early. We have to remember that we should discuss the new normal and not the return to the old normal”, he explains.

Professor at the Department of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases at the Faculty of Medicine at USP, Esper Kallás sees as a good sign the fact that the country has reached 80% of the adult population with a complete vaccination schedule. “I think it is a symbolic mark, it points to a situation that, confirmed the trend accumulated in recent months, shows that the countries that manage to expand the vaccination of their population are those that will be better positioned to face the pandemic, including the resurgence of new waves in the near future,” he says.

According to Kallás, Brazil is following the same path followed by Portugal, Spain, Chile and Uruguay, with high percentages of immunization and currently living a more comfortable situation in relation to the pandemic worldwide. “The places where another late wave of Covid-19 cases and deaths occurs, unfortunately, are those that have not reached high levels of vaccine protection, as Brazil is achieving”, he says.

This Monday, Brazil also registered 120 deaths from Covid and 3,853 cases of the disease. With that, the country reaches 612,842 deaths and 22,018,889 people infected since the beginning of the pandemic.

Mato Grosso did not release data updated this Monday.

The moving average of deaths is stable, that is, with no changes greater than 15% compared to data from two weeks ago. She is now 208 deaths a day.

Already the moving average of cases had a drop of 22%, compared to the values ​​of two weeks ago, and now is 8,655 infections per day.

The Brazilian data, collected until 20:00 this Saturday, are the result of collaboration between sheet, UOL, O Estado de S. Paulo, Extra, O Globo and G1 to gather and publish the numbers related to the pandemic of the new coronavirus. The information is collected daily by the consortium of press vehicles with the state Health Departments.