Brazil records 35 deaths and more than 1,800 cases by Covid in 24 hours

Brazil recorded, this Saturday (5), 35 deaths from Covid and 1,891 cases of the disease. With this, the country reaches 688,419 lives lost and 34,892,134 infected with Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic.

The moving average of deaths now stands at 39 per day, down 43% from two weeks ago. The moving average of cases is at 3,845 per day — a 30% reduction in the same period.

In all, 13 recorded new data on tests and/or deaths; of these, seven did not record deaths from the virus.

The country’s data, collected until 8 pm, are the result of collaboration between SheetUOL, 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 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.

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states do not update the total number of vaccinated on weekends and holidays, and even those that do sometimes report outdated numbers, which do not correspond to reality and are usually corrected in the following days.