Brazil registers 54 deaths and 27,897 new cases of Covid

Brazil recorded 27,897 cases and 54 deaths from Covid this Saturday (17). With that, the country reaches 35,902,425 infections and 691,830 lives lost since the beginning of the pandemic.

The moving averages of registered infections and deaths were 42,743 and 132, an increase, respectively, of 52% and 38% compared to 14 days ago.

The data for the country, collected until 8 pm, are the result of collaboration between SheetUOL, O Estado de S. Paulo, Extra, O Globo and G1 to gather and disseminate numbers related to the coronavirus pandemic.

The information is collected daily by the consortium of press vehicles with the state Health Secretariats. This Saturday, 14 states provided updated information.

In April of this year, the consortium of press vehicles stopped updating information on vaccination on weekends and holidays. The measure seeks to avoid inaccuracies in the numbers reported to the reader.

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.