Country records more than 171,000 Covid infections in 24 hours

Brazil recorded, this Tuesday (1), 171,028 infections and 767 deaths from Covid.

With that, the moving average of infected people reached 184,437, an increase of 120.53% compared to the data of two weeks ago.

The country now has 628,132 lives lost to Covid and 25,625,133 people infected with Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic.

The moving average of deaths also continues to grow. It is now 604 deaths per day, an increase of 226.48% compared to the data of two weeks ago.

The country’s data, collected up to 8 pm, are the result of a collaboration between Folha, UOL, O Estado de S. Paulo, Extra, O Globo and G1 to gather and disseminate figures related to the new coronavirus pandemic.

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

Vaccination data against Covid-19 is affected by the hacker attack on the Ministry of Health system, which took place in December, with several states without update. In any case, the information was at least partially updated in 21 states.

The consortium of press vehicles recently updated the Brazilian population numbers used to calculate the percentage of people vaccinated in the country.

Now, the data used are the IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics) projection for 2022. All numbers are now calculated according to these values, including last year’s. Therefore, the percentages of people vaccinated may differ from the previously published figures.​

Brazil registered 889,946 doses of vaccines against Covid-19, this Tuesday. According to data from the state health departments, there were 245,382 first doses and 82,111 second doses. 926,134 booster shots were also recorded.

In all, 165,297,376 people received at least the first dose of a vaccine against Covid in Brazil — 144,930,662 of them have already received the second dose of the immunizer. Added to the single doses of Janssen’s vaccine against Covid, there are already 149,628,004 people with both doses or with one dose of Janssen vaccine.

Thus, the country already has 76.94% of the population with the 1st dose and 69.65% of Brazilians with both doses or with one dose of the Janssen vaccine. Considering only the adult population, the values ​​are, respectively, 102.18% and 92.49%​​.

The consortium also started recording the doses of vaccines given to children. The population aged 5 to 11 years partially immunized (with only the first dose of vaccine received) is 9.43%.

​Even those who received both doses or one dose of the Janssen vaccine should maintain basic care, such as wearing a mask and social distancing, say experts.

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. In addition, the government released conflicting data.