Brazil registers 30 deaths by Covid in 24 h and 3,100 cases

Brazil recorded 30 deaths from Covid and 3,159 cases of the disease, this Saturday (1˚). With that, the country reaches 619,139 deaths and 22,288,532 registered cases of Covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic.

New case or death records occurred for 21 states. Acre, Alagoas, Amapá, Ceará, Goiás, Maranhão, Minas Gerais, Mato Grosso do Sul, Piauí, Paraná, Rondônia, Roraima Rio Grande do Sul and Tocantins did not register new deaths in the last 24 hours. The Federal District also did not register new cases and deaths.

Due to the Jan. 1 holiday, Saturday’s pandemic figures could be delayed and withheld information on new cases and deaths.

Moving averages of deaths and cases are stable from the previous day. The moving average of deaths is 97 deaths per day, thus completing the seventeenth day below 150 – a variation of 26% in relation to the previous 14 days – and that of cases is 8,089 infections.

The statistical resource that seeks to alleviate variations in data, such as those that usually happen on weekends and holidays, is calculated by adding up the deaths in the last seven days and dividing the result by seven.

The country’s data, collected up to 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 pandemic of the new coronavirus.

The information is collected by the consortium of press vehicles daily with the state Health Departments.

Covid-19 vaccination data, also collected by the consortium, were updated in 11 states and the Federal District.

Brazil registered 107,675 doses of vaccines against Covid-19, this Saturday. According to data from the state health departments, there were 15,033 first doses and 51,219 second doses. In addition, 57 single doses and 41,366 booster doses were recorded.

In all, 161,236,948 people received at least the first dose of a vaccine against Covid in Brazil. There are already 143,408,061 people with two doses or one dose of Janssen’s vaccine.

Thus, the country already has 75.59% of the population with the 1st dose and 67.23% of Brazilians with two doses or one dose of Janssen vaccine.

Even those who completed the vaccination schedule with two doses must maintain basic care, such as wearing a mask and social distance, experts say.

The initiative of the consortium of press vehicles took place in response to the attitudes of the Jair Bolsonaro (PL) government, which threatened to withhold data, delayed bulletins about the disease and took information off the air, with the interruption of the dissemination of total cases and deaths. In addition, the government released conflicting data.