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Average number of deaths from Covid drops below 200 in Brazil

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Brazil recorded 213 deaths from Covid and 21,920 cases this Tuesday (16). With this, the country reaches 681,828 lives lost and 34,199,057 people infected by Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic.

The moving average of deaths returned to below 200 after 50 days. It now stands at 176, down 16% from two weeks ago. The last time the average was less than 200 deaths a day was on June 27, when it was 198.

The average number of cases remains down and is now 19,058 infections per day. This is a 39% reduction, also compared to two weeks earlier. It is the first time the average has been below 20,000 since May 26, when it was 17,313.

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, 180,406,825 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 169,669,785 people with both doses or with one dose of Janssen vaccine.

Thus, the country already has 83.98% of the population with the 1st dose and 78.98% of Brazilians with two doses or one dose of the Janssen vaccine.

So far, 101,300,184 people have taken the third dose and 26,414,398 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 51.92% and the one that received the second dose is 34.48%.

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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