Brazil recorded 60 deaths from Covid and 5,609 cases of the disease this Saturday (17). With this update, the country has lost 685,410 lives and 34,627,090 people infected with Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic.
The moving average of cases shows a reduction of 60% compared to the data of two weeks ago. It is now 7,801 a day. The death rate also remains on the decline, with a 43% drop rate compared to two weeks ago. The average number is 72 a day.
Over the weekends, some states stopped releasing updated data. Some examples are Rio de Janeiro, Maranhão, Roraima and the Federal District.
The country data, collected up to 8 pm, are the result of collaboration between SheetUOL, O Estado de S. Paulo, Extra, O Globo and G1 to gather and publish the numbers related to the new coronavirus pandemic.
The information is collected by the consortium of press vehicles daily with the State Health Departments.
The consortium of press vehicles stopped updating the numbers of vaccinated against Covid-19 on weekends and holidays. On working days, the data will be updated normally. The measure aims to avoid inaccuracies in the numbers provided to the reader.
The change occurs due to problems in the consolidation of vaccination data by state secretariats. Several states do not update the total number of vaccinated on weekends and holidays, and even those that do sometimes report outdated numbers, which do not correspond to reality and are usually corrected in the following days.
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