Brazil recorded 77 lives lost and 4,178 new cases of the disease this Sunday (3). With this, the country reaches 660,269 deaths and 29,999,816 people infected with Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic.
Moving averages of deaths and cases remain down from two weeks ago. The average number of deaths now stands at 192 per day, a drop of 34%, and that of infections is 22,950, a reduction of 38%.
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.
With regard to vaccination, Brazil recorded 90,781 doses of vaccines against Covid-19 this Sunday. According to the state health departments, there were 8,244 first doses and 28,022 second doses across the country. 256 single doses and 54,259 booster doses were also recorded.
In all, 175,893,139 people have already received at least the first dose of a vaccine against Covid in Brazil — 160,945,452 of them received the second dose of the immunizer or the single dose of Janssen.
Thus, the country already has 81.88% of the population with the 1st dose and 74.92% of Brazilians with both doses or with one dose of the Janssen vaccine.
To date, 78,175,498 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 52.67%, totaling 10,796,760. In the same age group, 16.5%, ie, 3,382,669 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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