Brazil recorded 1,129 deaths from Covid and 129,266 cases of the disease, this Thursday (17). With that, the country reached 641,997 lives lost and 27,941,476 people infected with Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic.
On Thursday, the moving average of cases was 116,566 infections per day, down 36% from two weeks ago. It’s been 30 days in a row with an average above 100,000.
The moving average of deaths is 841, on the tenth day in a row with an average above 800.
The 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 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 Wednesday, the information was updated in 22 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 1,426,858 doses of vaccines against Covid-19, this Thursday. According to data from the state health departments, there were 602,865 first doses, 152,600 second doses and 5,125 single doses. 666,268 booster shots were also recorded.
Bahia had a record of -8,925 first doses.
In all, 170,609,984 people received at least the first dose of a vaccine against Covid in Brazil — 148,779,023 of them have already received the second dose of the immunizer. Added to the single doses of Janssen’s Covid vaccine, there are already 153,442,549 people with both doses or with one dose of Janssen vaccine.
Thus, the country already has 79.42% of the population with the 1st dose and 71.43% of Brazilians with both doses or with one dose of the Janssen vaccine. Considering only the adult population, the values are, respectively, 105.46% and 94.85%.
Only 27.27% 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 32.89%.
Considering the entire population over 5 years of age, 85.24% received one dose and 76.66% 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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