Brazil recorded 75 deaths from Covid and 29,102 cases of the disease this Thursday (17). With that, the country reaches 688,886 lives lost and 35,009,176 infected since the beginning of the pandemic.
The moving average of deaths is 32 per day, down 10% compared to the data two weeks ago. The moving average of cases is 11,525 per day, up 211% over the same period.
Alagoas, Amapá, Bahia Ceará, Distrito Federal, Maranhão and Roraima did not register deaths. In Mato Grosso do Sul there was no record of deaths or infected by the coronavirus in 24 hours.
The country’s data, collected until 8 pm, are the result of collaboration between Folha, UOL, O Estado de S. Paulo, Extra, O Globo and G1 to gather and disseminate the numbers related to the new coronavirus pandemic.
The information is collected daily by the consortium of press vehicles with the state Health Secretariats.
In all, 181,957,534 people received at least the first dose of a Covid vaccine in Brazil.
Added to the single doses of Janssen’s vaccine, there are 171,897,953 people with both doses or one dose of Janssen’s vaccine.
Thus, the country already has 84.7% of the population with the 1st dose and 80.02% of Brazilians with two doses or one dose of Janssen’s vaccine.
So far, 107,378,197 people have taken the third dose, and 35,767,431 the fourth.
The initiative by the consortium of press vehicles occurred in response to the actions of the Jair Bolsonaro (PL) government, which threatened to withhold data, delayed bulletins about the disease and removed information from the air, with the interruption of the disclosure of total cases and deaths.
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