Brazil has 33 deaths from Covid this Saturday, the lowest number since the beginning of January

Brazil​ ​​recorded 33 deaths from Covid and 3,049 cases of the disease this Saturday (16). This is the lowest number of deaths since January 2, 2022, when the country had 32 deaths.

With the new data, Brazil reached 661,993 lives lost and 30,245,839 people infected with Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic.

Moving averages of deaths and cases continue to decline from two weeks ago. The average number of deaths now stands at 103 per day, down 46%, and that of infections is 14,910, down 35%.

​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.

Again, Rio de Janeiro did not update its pandemic data. As official note, the update will be normalized next Monday (18).

On weekends and holidays, the pandemic data is usually lower due to notification delays in the health secretariats.

Therefore, the consortium of press vehicles stopped updating the numbers of vaccinated against Covid-19 on these dates. On working days, the data is updated as usual. The measure aims to avoid inaccuracies in the numbers provided to the reader.

The change, which debuted on 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no longer update the total number of vaccinated on days that are not working, and even those that do sometimes report outdated numbers, which do not correspond to reality and are usually corrected in the following days.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 continues to be published by vehicles every day, at 20 pm.