Average Covid cases have second day of growth

Brazil recorded 59 deaths from Covid and 10,606 cases of the disease this Monday (9). As a result, the country has lost 664,248 lives and 30,570,405 people infected with Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic.

The moving average of cases is up 19% from two weeks ago and now stands at 16,219 per day. It’s the second day of growth.

The average number of deaths remains stable (no variations of more than 15%) and is now 84 – as it happened over the weekend, this is the lowest average since April 9, 2020.

It is worth mentioning that the pandemic data are usually lower on weekends, holidays and Mondays due to notification delays in the health secretariats.

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 547,657 doses of vaccines against Covid-19 this Monday. According to data from the state health departments, there were 57,666 first doses and 153,619 second doses. 10,894 single doses and 325,478 booster doses were also recorded.

Ceará had a negative record of single doses (-513). In Piauí, the negative record was for first doses (-4,615).

In all, 177,532,063 people received at least the first dose of a vaccine against Covid in Brazil — 159,929,495 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 164,734,982 people with both doses or with one dose of Janssen vaccine.

Thus, the country already has 82.64% of the population with the 1st dose and 76.68% of Brazilians with both doses or with one dose of the Janssen vaccine.

So far, 88,344,726 people have already taken a booster dose, which represents 41.12% of the Brazilian population. Another 2,001,974 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 58.31%, totaling 11,953,364. In the same age group, 28.33% (5,808,506) 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.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​