Brazil recorded 294 deaths from Covid and 45,471 cases of the disease, this Wednesday (23). The country thus reaches 658,067 lives lost and 29,729,157 people infected with Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic.
Eight states reported no deaths from Covid on Wednesday.
Moving averages of deaths and cases continue to decline from two weeks ago. The average number of deaths is now 295, a reduction of 41%, and that of infections is 36,110, a drop of 26%.
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 685,630 doses of vaccines against Covid-19 this Wednesday. According to data from the state health departments, there were 66,055 first doses and 156,126 second doses. 3,343 single doses and 460,106 booster doses were also recorded.
Bahia had a negative record of first doses (-1,763). Pernambuco had a negative record of single doses (-8).
In all, 175,205,068 people received at least the first dose of a vaccine against Covid in Brazil — 154,765,082 of them have already received the second dose of the immunizer. Added to the single doses of Janssen’s Covid vaccine, there are already 159,506,948 people with both doses or one dose of Janssen vaccine.
Thus, the country already has 81.56% of the population with the 1st dose and 74.25% of Brazilians with both doses or one dose of the Janssen vaccine.
So far, 74,105,290 people have already taken a booster dose, which represents 34.50% 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 49.96%, totaling 10,242,660. In the same age group, 11.72% (2,403,493) 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 20 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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