Brazil recorded 12 deaths from Covid and 4,591 cases of the disease, this Sunday (5). The moving average of SARS-CoV-2 infections thus reached 29,342 per day, an increase of 103% compared to two weeks ago.
The low numbers, in part, can be related to the weekend, when data is usually lower due to notification delays.
In addition to the usual underreporting, nine states have not updated Covid data. They are: Federal District, Roraima, São Paulo, Mato Grosso do Sul, Rio de Janeiro, Bahia, Maranhão, Minas Gerais and Tocantins. Some of these have a habit of not doing updates on weekends. Others, however, including São Paulo (for the 3rd day in a row), alleged problems in the Ministry of Health system.
The country, with this Sunday’s data, reaches 667,056 lives lost and 31,153,765 people infected by Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic.
The average number of deaths now stands at 80 per day, down 17% from two weeks ago.
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.
The consortium of press vehicles stopped updating the numbers of vaccinated against Covid-19 on weekends and holidays. On business days, the data will be updated normally. The measure aims to avoid inaccuracies in the numbers provided to the reader.
The change is due to problems in the consolidation of vaccination data by state departments. Several states no longer update the total number of vaccinated on weekends and holidays, and even those that do sometimes report outdated numbers, which do not correspond to reality and are usually corrected in the following days.
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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