Brazil records 207 deaths from Covid and more than 5 thousand cases

Brazil recorded 207 deaths from Covid and 5,288 cases of the disease, this Saturday (1st). As a result, the country reached 686,304 lives lost and 34,720,437 people infected with Sars-CoV-2.

As has been the custom, several states did not update data. They were: Roraima, Rondônia, Maranhão, Piauí, Rio de Janeiro and the Federal District.

São Paulo, which had not updated the number of deaths since the beginning of the week, returned to enter data this Saturday. The state said problems in the Ministry of Health’s system prevented the data from being updated.

The moving averages of deaths and cases are stable, that is, without variations greater than 15% in relation to the data of two weeks before. The average number of deaths is now 67 a day and that of infections is 6,745.

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.

The consortium of press vehicles stopped updating the numbers of vaccinated against Covid on weekends and holidays. On working days, the data is updated as usual. 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states do not update the total number of vaccinated on weekends and holidays, and even those that do sometimes report outdated numbers, which do not correspond to reality and are usually corrected in the following days.

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.