Brazil registers 397 deaths by Covid in 24 h and more than 609 thousand deaths

Brazil recorded 397 deaths by Covid and 14,705 cases of the disease, this Friday (5). With this, the country has lost 609,112 lives and 21,861,282 people infected by Sars-CoV-2.

Moving averages of deaths and cases by Covid are down from two weeks ago. The averages are now 230 deaths per day and 9,932 daily infections, a reduction of 32% and 20% respectively.

It is worth remembering, however, that the pandemic data was affected by the recent holiday. On Sundays, Mondays and holidays, there is under-notification due to the lower availability of personnel in the health departments.

Country data, collected up to 8 pm, are the result of collaboration between sheet, 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 24 states and the Federal District.

Brazil registered 1,598,269 doses of vaccines against Covid-19, this Friday. According to data from the state health departments, there were 231,283 first doses and 1,024,734 second ones. 348,761 booster doses were also recorded.

Single doses had a negative record (-6,509). The value is derived from a review of over 7,557 in Ceará.

In all, 155,408,698 people received at least the first dose of a vaccine against Covid in Brazil —114,296,210 of them have already received the second dose of the immunizing agent. Added to the single doses of the Janssen vaccine against Covid, there are already 118,824,057 people with a complete vaccination schedule in the country.​

Thus, the country already has 72.85% of the population with the 1st dose and 55.70% of Brazilians with a complete vaccination schedule. Considering only the adult population, the values ​​are, respectively, 95.88% and 73.31%.

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 (non-party) 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.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​