Brazil recorded 159 deaths from Covid and 41,486 cases, this Tuesday (31). In this way, the moving average of infections by Sars-CoV-2 jumped 48%, compared to the data of two weeks ago, and reached 26,206 people infected per day.
The average number of deaths from the disease is now 110 per day, a situation of stability in relation to the data of two weeks ago.
With this Tuesday’s information, the country has lost 666,727 lives and 31,016,354 people infected by Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic.
The country data, collected up to 8 pm, are the result of collaboration between Sheet, UOL, O Estado de S. Paulo, Extra, O Globo and G1 to gather and disclose the numbers 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 451,477 doses of vaccines against Covid-19 this Tuesday. According to data from the state health departments, there were 51,438 first doses and 105,171 second doses. 1,967 single doses and 292,901 booster doses were also recorded.
Amazonas and Bahia had negative records of second doses, respectively -294 and -3,476.
Amazonas and Bahia also had negative records of booster doses, respectively -6,777 and -10,277.
In all, 178,487,721 people received at least the first dose of a vaccine against Covid in Brazil — 161,322,276 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 166,131,209 people with both doses or with one dose of Janssen vaccine.
Thus, the country already has 83.08% of the population with the 1st dose and 77.33% of Brazilians with both doses or with one dose of the Janssen vaccine.
So far, 92,744,104 people have already taken a booster dose, which represents 43.17% of the Brazilian population. Another 3,396,637 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 60.67%, totaling 12,436,590. In the same age group, 32.58% (6,679,277) 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.
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