Brazil recorded, this Thursday (8), 99 deaths from Covid and 4,099 cases of the disease. With this, the country has lost 684,784 lives and 34,549,915 people infected by the coronavirus since the beginning of the pandemic.
The moving average of deaths is now 83 per day, down 45% from two weeks ago. The moving average of cases is 8,249, which also indicates a drop of 45% in the same period.
Amapá, Alagoas, Mato Grosso do Sul, Rondônia, Roraima and the Federal District did not register deaths in the last 24 hours. Acre, Maranhão and Tocantins did not update the data on Thursday.
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, 180,885. 511 people received at least the first dose of a vaccine against Covid in Brazil. Added to the single doses of Janssen vaccine, there are already 170,246,503 people with two doses or one dose of Janssen vaccine.
Thus, the country already has 84.2% of the population with the 1st dose and 79.25% of Brazilians with two doses or one dose of the Janssen vaccine.
To date, 102,919,084 people have taken the third dose, and 28,674,847 the fourth.
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.
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