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Average number of deaths from Covid completes a week above 800 in Brazil

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Brazil completed a week with a moving average of deaths from Covid above 800 deaths per day. This Monday (14), the average was 859 lives lost, an increase of 42% compared to the data of two weeks ago.

This Monday, there were 464 deaths from Covid and 58,100 cases of the disease. As a result, the country has lost 638,913 lives and 27,541,131 people infected with Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic.

The moving average of cases, despite remaining at high levels, showed a reduction of 28% and reached 133,713 infected people per day.

The country data, collected up to 8 pm, are the result of collaboration between leaf, UOL, O Estado de S. Paulo, Extra, O Globo and G1 to gather and disclose the numbers 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 was affected by the hacker attack on the Ministry of Health system, which took place in December, which led to the lack of updates in several states for long periods of time. This Friday, the information was updated in 24 states and the Federal District.

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 1,298,128 doses of vaccines against Covid-19, this Monday. According to data from the state health departments, there were 250,232 first doses and 513,262 second doses. 9,303 single doses and 525,331 booster doses were also recorded.

CearĂ¡ had a negative record of single doses, -1,063. Santa Catarina had negative records of first, second and booster doses, respectively -39, -17 and -11,530.

In all, 169,431,198 people received at least the first dose of a vaccine against Covid in Brazil — 148,346,815 of them have already received the second dose of the immunizer. Added to the single doses of Janssen’s Covid vaccine, there are already 153,038,661 people with both doses or with one dose of Janssen vaccine.

Thus, the country already has 78.87% of the population with the 1st dose and 71.24% of Brazilians with both doses or with one dose of the Janssen vaccine. Considering only the adult population, the values ​​are, respectively, 104.73% and 94.60%​.

Only 26.30% of the population has taken a booster dose so far.

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 28.61%.

Considering the entire population over 5 years old, 84.65% received one dose and 76.46% received two doses or Janssen’s single dose vaccine.

​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 has released conflicting data.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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