Brazil records 164 deaths from Covid and approaches 663 thousand deaths

Brazil recorded 164 deaths from Covid and 21,102 cases of the disease this Tuesday (26). As a result, the country has lost 662,941 lives and 30,374,694 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. Now, the average number of deaths is 96 per day, a reduction of 27%, and that of infections is 13,596 per day, 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 registered 521,900 doses of vaccines against Covid-19 this Tuesday. According to data from the state health departments, there were 38,335 first doses and 122,588 second doses. 10,764 single doses and 350,213 booster doses were also recorded.

In all, 177,079,590 people received at least the first dose of a vaccine against Covid in Brazil — 158,896,422 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 163,663,678 people with both doses or with one dose of Janssen vaccine.

Thus, the country already has 82.43% of the population with the 1st dose and 76.18% of Brazilians with both doses or one dose of the Janssen vaccine.

So far, 85,362,007 people have already taken a booster dose, which represents 39.73% of the Brazilian population. Another 1,318,126 took the fourth dose of the vaccine.

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 57.09%, totaling 11,703,013. In the same age group, 25.07% (5,138,843) 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 22 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.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​