Brazil records 105 deaths from Covid and more than 13 thousand cases this Friday

Brazil​ ​​recorded 105 deaths from Covid and 13,347 cases of the disease, this Friday (15). With this, the country reached 661,960 lives lost and 30,242,790 people infected with Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic.

Rio de Janeiro, once again, did not update its data on the pandemic. The update will only be normalized next Monday (18).

On weekends and holidays, the pandemic data is 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 now stands at 111 per day, a reduction of 44%, and that of infections is 17,154, a drop of 28%.

​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.

The consortium of press vehicles will no longer update the numbers of vaccinated against Covid-19 on weekends and holidays. On business days, the data will be updated normally. The measure aims to avoid inaccuracies in the numbers provided to the reader.

The change, which debuts this Friday (15), is due to problems in the consolidation of vaccination data by state departments. Seven states no longer update the total number of vaccinated on weekends and holidays, and even those that do sometimes report outdated numbers, which do not correspond to reality and are usually corrected in the following days.

There is no change in the balance of cases and deaths from the coronavirus, which will continue to be published by the vehicles every day, at 20 pm.