Brazil recorded 143 deaths from Covid and 22,855 cases of the disease on Tuesday (18). With this, the country reached 675,551 lives lost and 33,319,635 infected with Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic.
Acre, Amapá and Mato Grosso do Sul registered no deaths. The state of Minas Gerais did not release an epidemiological bulletin this Tuesday.
The moving average of deaths is 248 per day, up 15.88% from two weeks ago. The average number of infections reached 54,258 per day, down 4.90%.
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, 47,838 first doses and 93,022 second doses were applied. Also recorded were 295,271 booster doses and 1,138 single doses.
Roraima has not updated vaccines.
Thus, in all, 179,447,243 people received at least the first dose of a vaccine against Covid in Brazil. Added to the single doses of Janssen vaccine, there are already 168,327,951 people with two doses or with one dose of Janssen vaccine.
Thus, the country already has 83.53% of the population with the 1st dose and 78.35% of Brazilians with two doses or one dose of the Janssen vaccine.
So far, 98,498,426 people have had their third booster dose and 19,483,581 have had their fourth.
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 64.24%, totaling 13,170,000. In the same age group, 40.27% (8,255,794) 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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