Brazil registers 6 thousand cases of Covid in 24 hours

Brazil recorded 157 deaths from Covid and 6,000 cases of the disease, this Wednesday (25). With this, the country reaches 666,112 lives lost and 30,838,912 infected by Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic.

The average number of deaths per day, after 11 days, was above 100; she is now 105.

The average number of infections is 14,455 cases per day, a drop of 11.92% compared to the data of two weeks ago (16,413). In the states of Paraná and Goiás there was a reduction in cases compared to the previous day, which has not yet been explained by the health departments.

Acre, Bahia, Alagoas, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Sergipe and Roraima did not register new deaths.

The country’s data, collected up to 8 pm, are the result of a collaboration between Folha, UOL, O Estado de S. Paulo, Extra, O Globo and G1 to gather and publish figures related to the new coronavirus pandemic. The information is collected by the consortium of press vehicles daily with the state Health Departments.

Regarding vaccination, Brazil recorded 1,356,299 doses of vaccines against Covid-19 this Wednesday. According to data from the state health departments, there were 25,269 first doses. 1,200,674 booster shots were also recorded.

In all, 178,272,688 people received at least the first dose of a vaccine against Covid in Brazil — 160,838,308 of them have already received the second dose of the immunizer. Added to the single doses of Janssen’s vaccine against Covid, there are already 165,639,167 people with both doses or with one dose of Janssen vaccine.

Thus, the country already has 82.98% of the population with the 1st dose and 77.1% of Brazilians with both doses or with one dose of the Janssen vaccine.

So far, 91,218,006 people have already taken a booster dose, which represents 42.46% of the Brazilian population. Another 2,971,016 took the fourth dose of the vaccine.

The consortium also gathers the record of vaccine doses administered to children. The population aged 5 to 11 years partially immunized (with only the first dose of vaccine received) is 59.95%, totaling 12,290,836. In the same age group, 31.39% (6,435,992) received the second dose or the single dose.

Vaccination data against Covid-19 was affected by the hacker attack on the Ministry of Health system, which took place in December, which led to the lack of updates in several states for long periods of time.

The consortium of press vehicles recently updated the Brazilian population numbers used to calculate the percentage of people vaccinated in the country. Now, the data used are the IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics) projection for 2022. All numbers are now calculated according to these values, including last year’s. Therefore, the percentages of people vaccinated may differ from the previously published figures.

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

The initiative of the consortium of press vehicles occurred in response to the attitudes of the Jair Bolsonaro (PL) government, which threatened to withhold data, delayed newsletters about the disease and took information from the air, with the interruption of the disclosure of the totals of cases and deaths. In addition, the government has released conflicting data.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​