Brazil records 80 deaths from Covid and more than 10 thousand cases

Brazil recorded 80 deaths from Covid and 10,526 cases of the disease this Monday (11). Thirteen states have not recorded deaths from the disease.

With this Monday’s data, the country reaches 661,389 lives lost and 30,158,707 people infected by Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic.

On weekends, Mondays and holidays, Covid data are usually lower, due to notification delays in the health secretariats.

Moving averages of deaths and cases continue to decline from two weeks ago. The average number of deaths is now 144 per day, a reduction of 34%, and that of infections is 22,337, a drop of 21% – it has already been 15 days in a row with averages of around 20,000 cases.

​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 687,797 doses of vaccines against Covid-19 this Monday. According to data from the state health departments, there were 67,644 first doses and 73,523 second doses. 2,384 single doses and 544,246 booster doses were also recorded.

Ceará recorded -224 single doses. Bahia had a negative record of second doses, with -853. Espírito Santo also recorded negative data for second doses, -107,121.

In all, 176,274,196 people received at least the first dose of a vaccine against Covid in Brazil — 157,375,522 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 162,126,555 people with both doses or with one dose of Janssen vaccine.

Thus, the country already has 82.05% of the population with the 1st dose and 75.47% of Brazilians with both doses or with one dose of the Janssen vaccine.

So far, 81,822,036 people have already taken a booster dose, which represents 38.09% 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 54.14%, totaling 11,098,560. In the same age group, 19.88% (4,075,683) 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.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​