The moving average of Covid cases in Brazil has once again surpassed the mark of 17 thousand infections per day. This Friday (13), the country recorded 130 deaths and 26,321 cases of the disease.
Almost a month ago, on April 15, the average number of cases was around 17,000, but since then it has dropped to 12,413, and then started to rise again.
The moving average of infections now stands at 17,537 per day, up 21% from two weeks ago. The average number of deaths, in turn, is now 98, a drop of 23% also compared to two weeks ago (it is worth noting that, in this past period in question, Rio de Janeiro had recorded more data regarding deaths in 2020 , which helped in a momentary rise in the average).
Brazil now has 664,830 lives lost and 30,662,493 people infected with Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic.
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 439,236 doses of vaccines against Covid-19 this Friday. According to data from the state health departments, there were 47,781 first doses and 100,255 second doses. 1,105 single doses and 290,095 booster doses were also recorded.
In all, 177,708,742 people received at least the first dose of a vaccine against Covid in Brazil — 160,341,865 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 165,135,241 people with both doses or with one dose of Janssen vaccine.
Thus, the country already has 82.72% of the population with the 1st dose and 76.87% of Brazilians with both doses or with one dose of the Janssen vaccine.
So far, 89,426,499 people have already taken a booster dose, which represents 41.63% of the Brazilian population. Another 2,168,081 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 58.79%, totaling 12,051,863. In the same age group, 29.25% (5,997,120) 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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