Brazil recorded 996 deaths from Covid and 95,493 cases of the disease, this Thursday (24). With this, the country reached 647,486 lives lost and 28,580,995 people infected with Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic.
For the first time since February 7, the country had a moving average of deaths below 800. This Thursday, the average stood at 784 deaths per day, a situation of stability (without variations above 15%) in relation to the data of two weeks ago.
The moving average of cases fell by 34% compared to two weeks ago and now stands at 91,360 infections 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 21 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 1,406,363 doses of vaccines against Covid-19, this Thursday. According to data from the state health departments, there were 262,975 first doses and 300,311 second doses. 12,519 single doses and 830,558 booster doses were also recorded.
In all, 172,077,436 people received at least the first dose of a vaccine against Covid in Brazil – 149,824,723 of them have already received the second dose of the immunizer. Added to the single doses of Janssen’s Covid vaccine, there are already 154,515,728 people with both doses or one dose of Janssen’s vaccine.
Thus, the country already has 80.10% of the population with the 1st dose and 71.93% of Brazilians with both doses or with one dose of the Janssen vaccine. Considering only the adult population, the values are, respectively, 106.37% and 95.51%.
Only 29.23% 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 40.49%. In the same age group, 0.10% received the second dose or the single dose.
Considering the entire population over 5 years old, 85.97% received one dose and 77.20% 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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