Brazil recorded 484 deaths from Covid and 49,294 cases of the disease, this Thursday (17). As a result, the country has lost 656,487 lives and 29,525,683 people infected with Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic.
The moving average of deaths continues to fall from two weeks ago. It is now 334 deaths per day, a reduction of 24%.
On the other hand, the moving average of cases is stable, that is, without variations of more than 15% also in relation to the data of two weeks ago. It now stands at 39,692 infections per day.
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.
Regarding vaccination, Brazil recorded 757,528 doses of vaccines against Covid-19 this Wednesday. According to data from the state health departments, there were 58,379 first doses and 205,197 second doses. 11,296 single doses and 482,656 booster doses were also recorded.
There were negative records of first doses in Bahia (-7,847), Paraná (-1,551), Rio de Janeiro (-16,039) and Roraima (-1,488). The second doses were also negative in Amazonas (-1,518), Bahia (-1,077) and Roraima (-1,193).
In the Federal District, there were single negative doses (-127).
In all, 174,783,755 people received at least the first dose of a vaccine against Covid in Brazil — 153,839,744 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 158,564,214 people with both doses or with one dose of Janssen vaccine.
Thus, the country already has 81.36% of the population with the 1st dose and 73.81% of Brazilians with both doses or with one dose of the Janssen vaccine.
So far, 71,367,017 people have already taken a booster dose, which represents 33.22% of the Brazilian population.
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 53.82%, totaling 11,033,939. In the same age group, 6.22% (1,274,446) 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.
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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