Brazil records 115 deaths from Covid and 10,000 more cases

Brazil recorded 115 deaths from Covid and 10,024 cases of the disease, this Thursday (19). As a result, the country has lost 665,491 lives and 30,747,752 people infected with Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic.

The moving average of deaths remains on the rise from two weeks ago. It is now 113 a day, an increase of 20%.

The average number of cases is now 15,940, which is stable compared to the rate of two weeks ago, that is, without variations of more 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 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 185,199 doses of vaccines against Covid-19 this Thursday. According to data from the state health departments, there were 24,165 first doses and 60,330 second doses. 103,178 booster shots were also recorded.

The single doses were negative (-2,474), this Thursday. This was due to -4,408 single doses registered in Ceará. The state also recorded negative second-dose doses (-3,341).

There were also negative records of first (-1,133) and second (-2,092) doses in Bahia.

The Federal District was another to have a negative record of second doses (-12,334). Finally, Santa Catarina recorded -17 first doses.

In booster doses, there was a negative record in Piauí (-8,710) and in Santa Catarina (-1).

In all, 177,837,156 people received at least the first dose of a vaccine against Covid in Brazil — 160,629,798 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 165,432,925 people with both doses or with one dose of Janssen vaccine.

Thus, the country already has 82.78% of the population with the 1st dose and 77.01% of Brazilians with both doses or with one dose of the Janssen vaccine.

So far, 90,408,841 people have already taken a booster dose, which represents 42.08% of the Brazilian population. Another 2,435,550 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 59.32%, totaling 12,161,366. In the same age group, 30.35% (6,220,989) 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.​​​​​​​​​​​​​