Brazil recorded 381 deaths from Covid and 47,796 cases of the disease, this Saturday (12), two years after the first death from the disease in the country. With this, Brazil reached 654,993 lives lost and 29,350,379 people infected with Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic.
Moving averages of deaths and infections continue to decline compared to data from two weeks ago. The average number of deaths now stands at 429 per day, down 38%. The average number of cases is 45,749, a reduction of 43%.
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 new coronavirus pandemic. The information is collected by the consortium of press vehicles daily with the State Health Departments.
Brazil recorded 1,613,148 doses of vaccines against Covid-19 this Saturday. According to data from the state health departments, there were 1,020,574 first doses and 355,132 second doses. 235,713 booster doses and 1,729 single doses were also recorded.
In all, 175,330,289 people received at least the first dose of a vaccine against Covid in Brazil. Added to the single doses of Janssen’s vaccine against Covid, there are already 157,691,457 people with both doses or with one dose of Janssen vaccine.
Thus, the country already has 81.61% of the population with the 1st dose and 73.4% of Brazilians with both doses or one dose of the Janssen vaccine.
Approximately 69 million of the population have taken a booster dose to date, totaling 32.2%.
The consortium also gathers the record of vaccine doses administered to children. The population aged 5 to 11 years partially immunized (with only the first dose of vaccine received) is 51.35%. In the same age group, 3.75% received the second dose or the single dose.
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 25 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.
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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