Average number of Covid cases in Brazil grows and passes 18 thousand per day

Brazil again had a moving average of Covid cases above 18,000 per day, this Monday (16). It is the highest average since the middle of last month, when it was around 19,000, when the country was experiencing a continuous drop in cases of the disease.

The country recorded, this Monday, 89 deaths from Covid and 14,873 cases of the disease. With that, the country reached 665,056 lives lost and 30,698,711 people infected with Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic.

The moving average of cases now stands at 18,329 per day, up 23% from two weeks ago.

The average of deaths remains above 100 and is now 115. The situation of the average of deaths, despite the growth in relation to the last few days, is stable, which means that the variation in relation to the data of two weeks ago is not greater than 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 publish 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 registered 398,930 doses of vaccines against Covid-19 this Monday. According to data from the state health departments, there were 27,176 first doses and 82,995 second doses. 7,218 single doses and 281,541 booster doses were also recorded.

In all, 177,735,918 people received at least the first dose of a vaccine against Covid in Brazil — 160,424,860 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 165,225,454 people with both doses or with one dose of Janssen vaccine.

Thus, the country already has 82.73% of the population with the 1st dose and 76.91% of Brazilians with both doses or with one dose of the Janssen vaccine.

So far, 89,708,040 people have already taken a booster dose, which represents 41.76% of the Brazilian population. Another 2,227,076 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 59.05%, totaling 12,105,160. In the same age group, 29.73% (6,095,000) 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.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​