Brazil records 65 deaths from Covid and 924 cases

Brazil recorded 65 deaths from Covid and 924 cases of Covid, this Sunday (2). With this, the country reaches 686,369 lives lost and 34,721,361 people infected since the beginning of the pandemic.

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

The moving average of deaths remains stable (no variations greater than 15% in relation to the data of two weeks before) and is now 73 deaths per day.

The moving average of cases was down 17% from two weeks ago and now stands at 6,706 infections per day.

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states do not update the total number of vaccinated on weekends and holidays, and even those that do sometimes report outdated numbers, which do not correspond to reality and are usually corrected in the following days.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.