Brazil records 43 deaths from Covid and more than 22 thousand cases in 24 hours

Brazil recorded 43 deaths from Covid and 22,642 cases of the disease, this Sunday (12). As a result, the country has lost 668,177 lives and 31,472,315 people infected with Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic.

Once again, the moving average of deaths once again surpassed the 100 deaths per day mark. At the moment, the average is 160 lives lost daily, an increase in relation to the data of two weeks ago (that is, with variations of more than 15%).

Acre, Alagoas, Amazonas, Amapá, Bahia, Ceará, Mato Grosso do Sul, Paraíba and Rondônia registered no deaths.

The moving average of cases continues to grow sharply. Now, the average is 45,507 people infected per day, an increase of 82% compared to the information two weeks ago.

The country’s data, collected up to 8 pm, are the result of a collaboration between Folha, UOL, O Estado de S. Paulo, Extra, O Globo and G1 to gather and publish figures related to the new coronavirus pandemic. The information is collected by the consortium of press vehicles daily with the state Health Departments.

This Saturday (11), Brazil registered the application of 2,310,020 doses. According to data from the state health departments, 718 first doses and 251,526 second doses were applied. 2,057,681 booster shots were also recorded.

Thus, a total of 178,779,379 people received at least the first dose of a vaccine against Covid in Brazil – 166,989,406 of them have already received the second dose of the immunizer or the single dose of the Janssen vaccine.

Thus, the country already has 83.23% of the population with the 1st dose and 77.73% of Brazilians with both doses or one dose of the Janssen vaccine.

So far, 95,962,417 people have taken a booster dose. Another 4,186,541 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 12,711,833 In the same age group, 36.16% (7,413,238) 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.​​​​​​​​​​​​​