Brazil recorded 51 deaths from Covid and 20,556 cases of the disease, this Wednesday (4). As a result, the country has lost 663,816 lives and 30,499,177 people infected with Sars-CoV-2.
The moving average of deaths dropped 7% compared to two weeks ago and now stands at 93 per day. It’s the first drop after five consecutive days of bullishness. This is the lowest number since December 2021, when, on the 26th, the mobile doctor stood at 92.
The average number of cases is now 14,855, a variation of 8% 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 309,967 doses of vaccines against Covid-19 this Wednesday. According to data from the state health departments, there were 31,445 first doses and 63,547 second doses. 1,833 single doses and 213,142 booster doses were also recorded.
In all, 177,331,515 people received at least the first dose of a vaccine against Covid in Brazil — 159,643,959 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 164,428,786 people with both doses or with a dose of Janssen vaccine.
Thus, the country already has 82.55% of the population with the 1st dose and 76.54% of Brazilians with both doses or with one dose of the Janssen vaccine.
So far, 87,213,268 people have already taken a booster dose, which represents 40.52% of the Brazilian population. Another 1,855,905 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 57.90%, totaling 11,869,249. In the same age group, 27.49% (5,635,776) 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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