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Brazil records more than 54 thousand cases of Covid and exceeds 33.5 million infections

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Brazil recorded 271 deaths from Covid and 54,145 cases of the disease, this Thursday (21). As a result, the country has lost 676,551 lives and 33,506,282 people infected with Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic.

Rio Grande do Norte did not release data on Thursday.

The moving averages of deaths and cases remain stable, that is, without variations greater than 15% in relation to the data of 15 days ago. The average number of deaths is now 244 a day and that of infections is 52,225 a day.

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 publish figures related to the coronavirus pandemic. The information is collected by the consortium of press vehicles daily with the state Health Departments.

In all, 179,602,937 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 168,623,042 people with both doses or with one dose of Janssen vaccine.

Thus, the country already has 83.60% of the population with the 1st dose and 78.49% of Brazilians with two doses or one dose of the Janssen vaccine.

So far, 99,514,462 people have taken the third dose and 20,406,355 the 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 64.48%, totaling 13,218,123. In the same age group, 40% (8,199,644) received the second dose or the single dose — the number of children vaccinated was reduced from the previous day.

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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