On November 1, Brazil recorded, for the first time since April 2020, a moving average of deaths per Covid of less than 300 lives lost per day. Thirty days later, now in the midst of a new variant that scares the world, the brand remains in that range.
This Tuesday (30), with the 326 registered deaths, the moving average of deaths was 231 lives lost per day, a scenario of stability (no changes greater than 15%) compared to the data of two weeks ago.
10,161 cases were also registered, bringing the average to 7,781 infections per day, down 17%, also from two weeks ago. It is the lowest average since May 8, 2020, when it was 7,752 daily cases.
The country thus reaches 614,754 deaths and 22,093,195 people infected with Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic.
The data may look positive, but there are a few points to keep in mind.
“We are celebrating having gone from a situation of dropping 15 aircraft a day to 1 a day”, says Jamal Suleiman, specialists at the EmĂlio Ribas Infectology Institute, referring to the number of deaths that the country has already reached before. The moving average reached above 3,000 daily deaths.
“When we talk about more than 200 deaths a day from a vaccine-preventable disease, it gives the impression that something is under control. But not”, says the specialist.
According to Suleiman, it is not reasonable that there are still that many people dying from a disease that can be prevented by vaccines, which are currently widely available in Brazil.
The specialist says that out of every 10 admissions to EmĂlio Ribas for serious Covid, 8 are from people who were not vaccinated.
Suleiman says it is possible to further reduce the numbers related to Covid in Brazil.​
Meanwhile, in other nations, the situation is one of growing cases and concerns about the new strain of Sars-CoV-2, omicron, initially identified in South Africa and classified by the WHO (World Health Organization) as a variant of worry.
The omicron, abundant in mutations in its protein S (Spike), the key to the invasion of human cells, may be more transmissible than previous variants, may more easily infect people who have already had Covid and there is also concern about its potential to evasion of vaccines.
All of these questions, however, remain concerns, considering that research is ongoing and there are few answers to the impact of omicrons on the pandemic. Amidst the lack of information, countries are restricting the entry of travelers from some nations.
On Tuesday, two cases of omicron were confirmed in Brazilian territory.
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 disseminate the numbers related to the pandemic of the new coronavirus. The information is collected by the consortium of press vehicles daily with the state Health Departments.
Covid-19 vaccination data, also collected by the consortium, were updated in 23 states and the Federal District.
Brazil registered 1,095,179 doses of vaccines against Covid-19, this Tuesday. According to data from the state health departments, there were 129,715 first doses, 593,625 second doses. In addition, 637 single doses and 371,202 booster doses were recorded.
In all, 158,968,799 people received at least the first dose of a vaccine against Covid in Brazil — 129,208,455 of them have already received the second dose of the immunizing agent. Added to the single doses of Janssen’s vaccine against Covid, there are already 133,784,419 people with two doses or one dose of Janssen’s vaccine.​
Thus, the country already has 74.52% of the population with the 1st dose and 62.72% of Brazilians with two doses or one dose of Janssen vaccine. Considering only the adult population, the values ​​are, respectively, 98.07% and 82.54%​.
Even those who received two doses or one dose of Janssen’s vaccine must maintain basic care, such as wearing a mask and social distance, experts say
The initiative of the consortium of press vehicles took place in response to the attitudes of the Jair Bolsonaro (non-party) government, which threatened to withhold data, delayed bulletins about the disease and took information off the air, with the interruption of the dissemination of total cases and deaths. In addition, the government released conflicting data.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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