Brazil records 41 deaths from Covid and more than 18 thousand cases

Brazil recorded 41 deaths from Covid and 18,074 cases of the disease this Sunday (26). Now, the country reaches 670,459 lives lost and 32,076,972 people infected with Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic.

The moving average of deaths is 193 per day, an increase of 20.6% from two weeks ago. The average number of infections reached 53,798 per day, an increase of 18.2% compared to Sunday (12).

Acre, Amapá, Amazonas, Ceará, Mato Grosso do Sul and Piauí did not register any deaths.

The Federal District and the states of Maranhão, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, Rondônia, Roraima and Tocantins did not publish bulletins.

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no longer update the total number of vaccinated on weekends and holidays, and even those that do sometimes report outdated numbers, which do not correspond to reality and are usually corrected in the following days.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.​​​​​​​​​​​​​