Brazil records 909 deaths from Covid and more than 123 thousand cases

Brazil recorded 909 deaths from Covid and 123,827 cases of the disease, this Tuesday (15). With this, the country reached 639,822 lives lost and 27,664,958 people infected with Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic.

The moving average of deaths now stands at 847 daily deaths, up 30% from two weeks ago.

The average of cases completed 28 days above 100 thousand. The average reached 127,077 infections per day, a reduction of 29% also in relation to the data of two weeks ago.

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 767,098 doses of vaccines against Covid-19, this Tuesday. According to data from the state health departments, there were 264,131 first doses. Second doses and single doses had negative data, respectively -187,376 and -36,205. 726,548 booster shots were also recorded.

The high negative data are related to the information provided by Amazonas, Ceará, Bahia and Rondônia.

Amazonas had a record of -285,695 second doses, as a correction to a previous error in the state panel.

Rondônia registered -35,750 single doses. The state was adding up second doses and single doses, which caused double counts of single doses.

Ceará recorded -2,134 second doses and -2,737 single doses. The state claims that corrections to data from 20 municipalities led to negative data.

Finally, Bahia recorded -4,387 second doses.

In all, 169,695,329 people received at least the first dose of a vaccine against Covid in Brazil — 148,159,439 of them have already received the second dose of the immunizer. Added to the single doses of Janssen’s Covid vaccine, there are already 152,815,080 people with both doses or one dose of Janssen’s vaccine.

Thus, the country already has 78.99% of the population with the 1st dose and 71.13% of Brazilians with both doses or with one dose of the Janssen vaccine. Considering only the adult population, the values ​​are, respectively, 104.90% and 94.46%​.​

Only 26.64% 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 30.28%.

Considering the entire population over 5 years old, 84.78% received one dose and 76.35% 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.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​