Brazil recorded 108 deaths from Covid and 21,748 cases of the disease, this Tuesday (3). As a result, the country has lost 663,765 lives and 30,478,621 people infected with Sars-CoV-2.
Espírito Santo did not release data on deaths and cases on Tuesday.
The moving average of deaths rose 8% compared to two weeks ago and now stands at 118 per day. It’s the fifth day of discharge. But it is worth remembering that, in the last week, Rio de Janeiro included 85 deaths recorded in 2020, a value that still impacts the current moving average. In addition, the Tiradentes holiday can also influence, with delays, the values seen.
The average number of cases is now 14,847, a variation of 5% compared to, again, two weeks ago.
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 428,585 doses of vaccines against Covid-19 this Tuesday. According to data from the state health departments, there were 31,407 first doses and 127,187 second doses. Also recorded were 1,550 single doses and 268,441 booster doses.
In all, 177,300,070 people received at least the first dose of a vaccine against Covid in Brazil — 159,580,412 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 164,363,406 people with both doses or with one dose of Janssen vaccine.
Thus, the country already has 82.53% of the population with the 1st dose and 76.51% of Brazilians with both doses or with one dose of the Janssen vaccine.
So far, 87,052,949 people have already taken a booster dose, which represents 40.52% of the Brazilian population. Another 1,806,596 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 57.78%, totaling 11,844,031. In the same age group, 27.08% (5,550,639) 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.
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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