Brazil registers 68 deaths from Covid in 24 h and more than 4,000 cases

Brazil recorded 68 deaths by Covid and 4,623 cases of the disease, this Sunday (5). With that, the country reached 615,674 lives lost and 22,140,599 people infected by Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic.

For the second day in a row, the average number of deaths, which takes into account the last seven days, is below 200 per day, reaching 194. The average number of infections is 8,837 daily.

Acre, Amapá, Federal District, Espírito Santo, Mato Grosso do Sul, Mato Grosso, Rio Grande do Norte, Rondônia, Roraima, Sergipe and Tocantins did not register deaths or did not release data.

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 15 states and the Federal District.

Brazil registered 41,795 doses of vaccines against Covid-19, this Sunday, according to data from the state health departments. As there was a negative record in Piauí and Rondônia, -27,419 first doses and 26,097 second doses were identified. In addition, -62 single doses and 43,179 booster doses were recorded.

In all, 159,611,326 people received at least the first dose of a vaccine against Covid in Brazil —132,085,468 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 136,666,885 people with two doses or one dose of Janssen’s vaccine.​

Thus, the country already has 74.82% of the population with the 1st dose and 64.07% of Brazilians with two doses or one dose of Janssen vaccine. Considering only the adult population, the values ​​are, respectively, 98.47% and 84.31%​​.

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.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​