Brazil recorded 518 deaths from Covid and 78,374 cases of the disease, this Tuesday (8). As a result, the country has lost 652,936 lives and 29,144,964 people infected with Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic.
Moving averages of deaths and cases continue to decline from two weeks ago. The number of deaths now stands at 460 per day, a reduction of 43%, and that of infections at 47,928 per day, a decrease of 50%.
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 23 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 1,128,582 doses of vaccines against Covid-19, this Tuesday. According to data from the state health departments, there were 119,559 first doses and 274,654 second doses. 5,822 single doses and 728,547 booster doses were also recorded.
Bahia registered -4,322 first doses.
In all, 173,391,638 people received at least the first dose of a vaccine against Covid in Brazil — 151,824,637 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 156,528,848 people with both doses or with one dose of Janssen vaccine.
Thus, the country already has 80.71% of the population with the 1st dose and 72.86% of Brazilians with both doses or with one dose of the Janssen vaccine. Considering only the adult population, the values are, respectively, 107.18% and 96.76%.
Only 31.30% 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 48.99%. In the same age group, 2.60% received the second dose or the single dose.
Considering the entire population over 5 years of age, 86.63% received one dose and 78.20% 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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