Brazil recorded 190 deaths from Covid and 21,046 cases, this Tuesday (19). As a result, the moving average of deaths from the disease returned to above 100 per day.
Tuesday’s data brings the total number of lives lost during the pandemic to 662,266 and that of Sars-CoV-2 infections to 30,279,521.
Moving averages of deaths and cases continue to decline from two weeks ago. The average of deaths is now 102, a reduction of 41% (and a small oscillation upwards compared to Monday’s data). Holidays and weekends often overturn the pandemic data due to delays in reporting to the health secretariats.
The moving average of infections is now 14,147, down 36%.
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 810,741 doses of vaccines against Covid-19 this Tuesday. According to data from the state health departments, there were 106,014 first doses and 420,185 second doses. 2,028 single doses and 282,514 booster doses were also recorded.
There were records of negative single doses in Ceará (-7) and Rio Grande do Norte (-2). In addition, there were negative records of booster doses in the Federal District (-13,227) and Pernambuco (-101,976).
In all, 176,905,008 people received at least the first dose of a vaccine against Covid in Brazil — 158,622,096 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 163,372,772 people with both doses or with one dose of Janssen vaccine.
Thus, the country already has 82.35% of the population with the 1st dose and 76.05% of Brazilians with both doses or with one dose of the Janssen vaccine.
So far, 84,066,857 people have already taken a booster dose, which represents 39.13% 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 56.34%, totaling 11,550,733. In the same age group, 23.26% (4,767,778) 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 24 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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