Brazil recorded 645 deaths from Covid and 55,821 cases of the disease, this Saturday (5). With this, the country reaches 651,988 deaths and 29,030,136 registered cases of Covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic.
Moving averages of deaths and cases remain down from two weeks ago. The average number of deaths is now 428, a reduction of 49%, and that of infections is 41,006, a drop of 60%.
The statistical feature that seeks to smooth out variations in data, such as those that usually happen on weekends and holidays, is calculated by adding the deaths in the last seven days and dividing the result by seven.
The country data, collected up to 8 pm, are the result of collaboration between sheetUOL, 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, also collected by the consortium, were updated in 20 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 378,416 doses of vaccines against Covid-19 this Saturday. According to data from the state health departments, there were 50,133 first doses, 99,752 second doses. In addition, 536 single doses and 227,995 booster doses were recorded.
In all, 172,990,867 people received at least the first dose of a vaccine against Covid in Brazil. There are already 155,727,963 people with two doses or one dose of the Janssen vaccine. As for booster doses, 65,963,437 were applied.
Thus, the country already has 80.53% of the population with the 1st dose and 72.49% of Brazilians with two doses or with one dose of the Janssen vaccine, and 30.70% of the population with vaccine booster.
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 46.91%. In the same age group, 1.40% received the second dose or the single dose.
Considering the entire population over 5 years of age, 86.43% received one dose and 77.80% received two doses or the single dose Janssen 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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