Brazil recorded 424 deaths from Covid and 48,490 cases of the disease this Sunday (20). With this, the country reached 644,362 lives lost and 28,207,590 people infected with Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic.
On Sundays, Mondays and holidays, pandemic data are lower due to notification delays in the health secretariats.
The moving average of deaths remains stable, that is, without variation of more than 15%, in relation to the data of two weeks ago. The average is now 845 lives lost per day.
The moving average of cases dropped by 37%, also compared to two weeks ago, and now stands at 103,508 infected people per day.
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 16 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 259,484 doses of vaccines against Covid-19 this Sunday. According to data from the state health departments, there were 119,882 first doses and 1,183 single doses. 325,224 booster shots were also recorded.
The second doses were negative: -186,805.
In all, 171,195,137 people received at least the first dose of a vaccine against Covid in Brazil — 149,038,295 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 153,705,757 people with both doses or with a dose of Janssen vaccine.
Thus, the country already has 79.69% of the population with the 1st dose and 71.55% of Brazilians with both doses or with one dose of the Janssen vaccine. Considering only the adult population, the values are, respectively, 105.82% and 95.01%.
Only 27.96% 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 34.87%.
Considering the entire population over 5 years, 85.53% received one dose and 76.79% 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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