Brazil records 146 deaths from Covid and almost 15 thousand cases this Sunday (13)

Brazil recorded 146 deaths from Covid and 14,859 cases of the disease in the last 24 hours. As a result, the country has lost 655,139 lives and 29,365,238 people infected with Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic, declared just over two years ago.

Moving averages of deaths and infections continue to decline compared to data from two weeks ago. The average number of deaths now stands at 419 per day, down 38%. The average number of cases is 45,613, a reduction of 40%.

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.

Regarding vaccination, Brazil recorded 134,005 doses of vaccines against Covid-19 this Sunday. According to data from the state health departments, there were 43,070 first doses. The number of second doses was negative (-58,350) because of a review of data from Piauí and Espírito Santo. 148,224 booster doses and 1,061 single doses were also recorded.

In all, 175,373,899 people received at least the first dose of a vaccine against Covid in Brazil. In addition, there are already 157,634,168 people with the two doses or with one dose of the Janssen vaccine.

Thus, the country already has 81.63% of the population with the 1st dose and 73.38% of Brazilians with both doses or one dose of the Janssen vaccine.

So far, 64,242,621 people have taken a booster dose.

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 51.62%, totaling 10,581,949. In the same age group, 3.87% (793,010) 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 Sunday, the information was updated in 25 states and the Federal District. Four of these did not register deaths.

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.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​