Brazil records 147 deaths and more than 59 thousand cases of Covid

Brazil recorded 147 deaths from Covid and 59,944 cases of the disease, this Monday (27). With this, the country reached 670,606 lives lost and 32,136,916 infected with Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic.

Acre, Amapá, Maranhão, Mato Grosso do Sul, Rondônia and Sergipe did not register any deaths.

The moving average of deaths is 198 per day, up 22.98% from two weeks ago. The average number of infections reached 54,400 per day, a growth of 21.89%.

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 disseminate figures related to the 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, in the last 24 hours, 12,599 first doses and 73,600 second doses were applied. 2,626 single doses and 628,232 booster doses were also recorded.

Thus, in all, 179,037,699 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 167,402,950 people with both doses or with one dose of Janssen vaccine.

Thus, the country already has 83.34% of the population with the 1st dose and 77.92% of Brazilians with two doses or one dose of the Janssen vaccine.

Santa Catarina did not update the vaccine data.

So far, 101,158,309 people have taken a booster dose.

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 63%, totaling 12,915,377. In the same age group, 38.13% (7,816,251) 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.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​