Brazil completed seven days in a row with a moving average of deaths below 200 per day. The average number of cases remains above 20,000 a day.
The country recorded 147 deaths from Covid and 28,324 cases of the disease, this Friday (8).
Moving averages of deaths and cases continue to decline from two weeks ago. The average number of deaths now stands at 160 per day, a reduction of 33%, and that of infections is 21,444, a drop of 30%.
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 589,151 doses of vaccines against Covid-19 this Friday. According to data from the state health departments, there were 36,545 first doses and 110,750 second doses. 4,045 single doses and 437,811 booster doses were also recorded.
Bahia recorded negative first and second doses, respectively -5,615 and -8,775.
Amazonas recorded negative single doses (-356).
Santa Catarina had negative records of first doses and single doses, respectively -629 and -21.
In all, 176,138,996 people received at least the first dose of a vaccine against Covid in Brazil — 157,161,900 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 161,930,031 people with both doses or with a dose of Janssen vaccine.
Thus, the country already has 81.99% of the population with the 1st dose and 75.38% of Brazilians with both doses or with one dose of the Janssen vaccine.
So far, 80,998,712 people have already taken a booster dose, which represents 37.70% 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 53.95%, totaling 11,059,742. In the same age group, 19.34% (3,964,055) 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 21 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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