Brazil recorded 722 deaths from Covid and 71,897 cases of the disease this Saturday (26). With that, the country reached 648,989 lives lost and 28,743,091 infected with Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic.
Moving averages of cases and deaths are falling. The number of deaths now stands at 722, a reduction of 19.23% compared to the data of two weeks ago. The average number of infections is 83,427, a decrease of 38.71% also compared to the situation two weeks earlier.
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 publish the numbers related to the Covid-19 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 Saturday, the information was updated in 19 states.
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 422,172 doses of vaccines against Covid-19 this Saturday. According to data from the state health departments, there were 76,281 first doses and 67,665 second doses. 482 single doses and 277,744 booster doses were also recorded.
In all, 172,391,800 people received at least the first dose of a vaccine against Covid in Brazil — 150,061,482 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 154,764,429 people with both doses or with one dose of Janssen vaccine.
Thus, the country already has 80.25% of the population with the 1st dose and 72.04% of Brazilians with both doses or with one dose of the Janssen vaccine. Considering only the adult population, the values are, respectively, 106.56% and 95.67%.
Only 29.70% 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 42.46%. In the same age group, 0.22% received the second dose or the single dose.
Considering the entire population over 5 years, 86.13% received one dose and 77.32% received two doses or the Janssen 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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