Brazil recorded this Wednesday (01) a moving average of cases of 96% and reached 31,314 infected people per day compared to data from two weeks ago. The percentage is the highest value since January 31, when the country registered a 125% moving average of cases.
In total, there were 41,755 cases registered in the last 24 hours. Regarding deaths, the country had 121 new deaths, resulting in a moving average of 105, remaining stable compared to data from two weeks ago.
With the new data, the country reaches 666,848 lives lost and 31,058,109 people infected with 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 1,715,092 new doses of vaccines against Covid-19 this Wednesday. According to data from the state health departments, there were 21,352 first doses and 56,730 second doses. 1,020 single doses and 1,635,990 booster doses and fourth doses were also recorded.
Thus, a total of 178,509,073 people received at least the first dose of a vaccine against Covid in Brazil. Added to the single doses of Janssen’s vaccine against Covid, there are already 166,188,959 people with both doses or with one dose of Janssen vaccine.
Thus, the country already has 83.09% of the population with the 1st dose and 77.36% of Brazilians with both doses or with one dose of the Janssen vaccine.
So far, 92,980,330 people have taken a booster dose. Another 3,531,863 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 60.77%, totaling 12,457,066. In the same age group, 32.76% (6,715,731) 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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