Brazil recorded, this Friday (10), 158 deaths from Covid and, with that, reached 668,007 lives lost since the beginning of the pandemic. 55,915 cases of the disease were also recorded, bringing the country to a total of 31,416,072 infected people.
There has been an increase in infections and deaths by Sars-CoV-2. This caused both the moving average of deaths and cases to grow.
The average number of infections is back above 40,000, up 76% from two weeks ago. More specifically, it now stands at 40,220 cases a day. It is the highest average since March 16 of this year, when it was 40,335.
The average number of deaths now stands at 141 deaths per day, an increase of 27% also compared to the average of 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.
This Friday, Brazil registered the application of 2,607,564 doses. According to data from the state health departments, 20,562 first doses and 90,264 second doses were applied. Also recorded were 1,844 single doses, 461,860 booster doses and 2,033,034 fourth doses.
In this way, a total of 178,798,661 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 166,737,785 people with both doses or with one dose of Janssen vaccine.
Bahia recorded negative first and second doses (-6,913 and -6,532 respectively).
Thus, the country already has 83.23% of the population with the 1st dose and 77.61% of Brazilians with both doses or with one dose of the Janssen vaccine.
So far, 95,959,178 people have taken a booster dose. Another 4,165,133 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 62.01%, totaling 12,711,269. In the same age group, 36.16% (7,412,913) 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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