Brazil has average Covid cases below 20,000 for the first time in more than 3 months

For the first time in more than three months, Brazil had a moving average of cases below 20,000. This Thursday (14), the average was 19,294, down 21% from the data two weeks ago. The last time the average was below this value was on January 6 of this year, when it was 17,100.

This Thursday, there were 145 deaths from Covid and 20,167 cases of the disease. As a result, the country has lost 661,855 lives and 30,229,443 people infected with Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic.

Rio de Janeiro did not update the pandemic data this Thursday. Updates will only resume in the state next Monday.

The moving average of deaths is now 117 per day, down 43% from two weeks ago.

​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 473,389 doses of vaccines against Covid-19 this Thursday. According to data from the state Health Departments, there were 45,953 first doses and 117,794 second doses. 54,735 single doses and 254,907 booster doses were also recorded.

Bahia had a negative record of single doses (-132). Minas Gerais also had negative records of first doses (-1,689) and single doses (-21). Piauí had a negative record of first (-158) and second doses (-255).

In all, 176,424,885 people received at least the first dose of a vaccine against Covid in Brazil — 157,783,222 of them have already received the second dose of the immunizer. Added to the single doses of Janssen’s Covid vaccine, there are already 162,579,869 people with both doses or one dose of Janssen’s vaccine.

Thus, the country already has 82.12% of the population with the 1st dose and 75.68% of Brazilians with both doses or with one dose of the Janssen vaccine.

So far, 83,024,537 people have already taken a booster dose, which represents 38.65% 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 54.66%, totaling 11,205,145. In the same age group, 21.25% (4,357,300) 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 17 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.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​