Brazil reaches 660,000 deaths from Covid

Brazil reached 660,065 deaths from Covid. There were 205 deaths and 26,536 cases recorded this Friday (1st).

In addition to the 660,000 mark, the country should reach 30 million people infected with Sars-CoV-2 in the next few days. This Friday, the figure reached 29,972,606 infections.

Six states reported no deaths. They are: Acre, Amazonas, Espírito Santo, Paraná, Rondônia, Roraima

Moving averages of deaths and cases continue to decline from two weeks ago. The average number of deaths is now 206, a reduction of 34%, and that of cases is 24,533, a drop of 35%.

​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 709,891 doses of vaccines against Covid-19 this Friday. According to data from the state health departments, there were 47,769 first doses and 156,050 second doses. 1,151 single doses and 504,921 booster doses were also recorded.

Ceará had negative records of first doses (-3,981) and single doses (-1,752).

Santa Catarina had a negative record of first doses (-739).

In all, 175,799,065 people received at least the first dose of a vaccine against Covid in Brazil — 156,093,454 of them have already received the second dose of the immunizer. Added to the single doses of Janssen’s Covid vaccine, there are already 160,817,172 people with both doses or with one dose of Janssen vaccine.

Thus, the country already has 81.83% of the population with the 1st dose and 74.86% of Brazilians with both doses or with one dose of the Janssen vaccine.

So far, 77,922,992 people have already taken a booster dose, which represents 36.27% 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 52.51%, totaling 10,764,948. In the same age group, 16.23% (3,327,242) 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 22 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.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​