Brazil records 223 deaths from Covid and reaches 663 thousand deaths

Brazil recorded 224 deaths from Covid, this Wednesday (27), and reached 663,165 lives lost since the beginning of the pandemic. 20,495 cases of the disease were also recorded, totaling 30,395,189 infections.

An expressive part of the deaths (124) occurred in Rio de Janeiro. According to the State Department of Health of the state, the value does not refer to deaths only in the last 24 hours. Of the total, 85 occurred in 2020 and refer to São Gonçalo and São João da Barra.

Nine states reported no deaths from Covid on Wednesday.

The moving average of cases remains down from two weeks ago. It now stands at 12,413 infections per day, down 36%. The average number of deaths in recent weeks has remained at levels close to 100 per day, without major variations. This Wednesday it was 99, a decrease of 15%.

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 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 513,448 doses of vaccines against Covid-19 this Wednesday. According to data from the state health departments, there were 53,404 first doses and 122,374 second doses. 2,162 single doses and 335,508 booster doses were also recorded.

There were negative records of doses in Alagoas (-1 single dose) and in Amazonas (-281 second doses).

In all, 177,132,994 people received at least the first dose of a vaccine against Covid in Brazil — 159,018,796 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 163,788,214 people with both doses or with one dose of Janssen vaccine.

Thus, the country already has 82.45% of the population with the 1st dose and 76.24% of Brazilians with both doses or with one dose of the Janssen vaccine.

So far, 85,697,515 people have already taken a booster dose, which represents 39.89% of the Brazilian population. Another 1,410,508 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 57.23%, totaling 11,732,558. In the same age group, 25.46% (5,219,143) 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 23 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.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​