The moving average of Covid cases reached 32,983 infections per day, a jump of 138% from the figure two weeks ago, when it was 13,859.
The new average is the result of the 41,714 cases recorded this Thursday (2), when Brazil also recorded 130 deaths from Covid. With this, the country reaches 666,978 lives lost and 31,099,823 people infected with Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic.
Due to the recent growth in Covid cases, the state and city of São Paulo have once again recommended the use of masks in closed places.
While the moving average of cases rises, the average of deaths remains stable (no changes greater than 15% compared to two weeks earlier). It is now 104 deaths per day.
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 publish the numbers related to the new coronavirus pandemic. The information is collected by the consortium of press vehicles daily with the State Health Departments.
According to data from the state health departments, there were 36,723 first doses and 70,313 second doses. Also recorded were 2,440 single doses, 301,033 booster doses and 1,464,173 fourth doses.
In this way, a total of 178,545,796 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 166,261,712 people with both doses or with one dose of Janssen vaccine.
Thus, the country already has 83.11% of the population with the 1st dose and 77.39% of Brazilians with both doses or with one dose of the Janssen vaccine.
So far, 93,281,363 people have taken a booster dose. Another 3,596,272 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 61.45%, totaling 12,597,367. In the same age group, 34.93% (7,159,957) 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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