Brazil records 66 deaths from Covid and more than 5 thousand cases of the disease in 24 hours

Brazil recorded, this Thursday (20), 66 deaths from Covid and 5,096 cases of the disease. With this, the country reaches 687,544 lives lost and 34,818,744 infected by Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic.

The moving average of deaths is now 61 per day, a reduction of 41.90% compared to two weeks ago. The moving average of cases is at 5,227 per day — a drop of 15.59% over the same period.

Alagoas, Amapá, Espírito Santo, Maranhão, Paraíba and Santa Catarina registered no deaths.

Alagoas, Amapá, Espírito Santo, Maranhão, Paraíba and Santa Catarina registered no deaths.

Mato Grosso do Sul did not register cases and deaths; the state also did not update vaccine information, as did Acre, Amapá, Paraíba and Rio de Janeiro.

Piauí did not update the numbers of cases and deaths.

In Bahia, there were no cases in the last 24 hours.

In São Paulo, the Health Department stated that the state was unable to extract data on cases and deaths by Covid-19 this Thursday (20), due to a failure and instability in the official systems of the Ministry of Health.

The country’s data, collected up to 8 pm, are the result of a collaboration between Folha, UOL, O Estado de S. Paulo, Extra, O Globo and G1 to gather and disseminate figures related to the coronavirus pandemic. The information is collected by the consortium of press vehicles daily with the State Health Departments.

In all, 181,903,457 people received at least the first dose of a vaccine against Covid in Brazil. Adding the single doses of Janssen vaccine, there are 171,108,649 people with both doses or one dose of Janssen vaccine.

Thus, the country already has 84.67% of the population with the 1st dose and 79.65% of Brazilians with two doses or one dose of the Janssen vaccine.

To date, 104,900,184 people have taken the third dose, and 34,489,731 the fourth.

The initiative by 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.