Average Covid cases drop below 30,000 a day after almost two months

After almost two months, the moving average of Covid cases has returned to below 30 thousand infections per day. The average, this Thursday (4), was 29,885 people infected per day. The previous figure below 30,000 was recorded on June 6, when the average was 29,682.

This Thursday, there were 258 deaths from Covid and 34,240 cases of the disease. As a result, the country has lost 679,594 lives and 33,961,568 people infected with Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic.

The new moving average of cases represents a 33% drop from two weeks ago. The average number of deaths is now 207, remaining stable (no variations of more than 15% also compared to the data from two weeks earlier.

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, 179,979,670 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 169,202,125 people with both doses or with one dose of Janssen vaccine.

Thus, the country already has 83.78% of the population with the 1st dose and 78.76% of Brazilians with two doses or one dose of the Janssen vaccine.

So far, 101,382,399 people have taken the third dose and 22,872,771 the fourth.

The consortium also gathers the record of vaccine doses administered to children. With the expansion of the age group that can receive the vaccine against Covid, the consortium now presents the population from 3 to 11 years old immunized. In this range, the partially immunized share (with only the first dose of vaccine received) is 51.02% and the one that received the second dose is 32.71%.

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.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​