Brazil recorded 246 deaths from Covid and 22,046 cases of the disease this Wednesday (17). As a result, the country has lost 682,074 lives and 34,221,103 people infected with Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic.
Moving averages of cases and deaths remain down from two weeks ago. The average number of infections now stands at 17,930, a reduction of 40%, while that of deaths is 175, about 16% lower than the figure 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, 180,427,570 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 169,713,380 people with both doses or with one dose of Janssen vaccine.
Thus, the country already has 83.99% of the population with the 1st dose and 79% of Brazilians with two doses or one dose of the Janssen vaccine.
So far, 101,390,639 people have taken the third dose and 26,623,869 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 51.95% and the one that received the second dose is 34.53%.
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 released conflicting data.
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