Brazil records 76 deaths from Covid and more than 8,000 cases

Brazil recorded 76 deaths from Covid and 8,195 cases of the disease, this Monday (25). With this, the country reached 662,777 lives lost and 30,353,592 people infected with Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic.

Due to a problem in the system, Amapá did not update the data on deaths and vaccines. There was also no update on the Espírito Santo data.

Disregarding these two states, another ten did not record deaths on Monday.

Despite the relatively minor data, the possible impact of notification delays due to the last holiday must still be taken into account.

Moving averages of deaths and cases continue to decline from two weeks ago. The average number of deaths is now 100 a day, a reduction of 27%, and that of infections is 13,588, a drop of 33%.

The 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 publish 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 447,560 doses of vaccines against Covid-19 this Monday. According to data from the state health departments, there were 38,190 first doses and 105,223 second doses. 1,344 single doses and 302,803 booster doses were also recorded.

Bahia had a negative record of second doses (-3,084). Ceará recorded negative single doses (-274).

In all, 177,041,255 people received at least the first dose of a vaccine against Covid in Brazil — 158,773,834 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 163,530,326 people with both doses or with one dose of Janssen vaccine.

Thus, the country already has 82.41% of the population with the 1st dose and 76.12% of Brazilians with both doses or with one dose of the Janssen vaccine.

So far, 85,011,794 people have already taken a booster dose, which represents 39.57% 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 56.97%, totaling 11,679,736. In the same age group, 24.67% (5,057,459) 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 15 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.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​