Brazil has administered 1st Covid-19 vaccine dose to 36.5 million people

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Brazil has administered the 1st dose of the Covid-19 vaccine to 36,507,052 people by 9:30 PM on Tuesday, May 11. Of these, 18,382,641 were administered the 2nd dose. In total, 54,889,693 doses have been administered in the country.

The data are from the coronavirusbra1 and covid19br websites, which compile data from state health departments.

The number of people vaccinated with at least one dose is equivalent to 17.1% of the population, according to the IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics) projection for 2021. Those who have been vaccinated with both doses represent 8.6%.

Among those who have been immunized with the 1st dose, 50% have also been given the 2nd and are now immunized. The vaccines being used in Brazil are the CoronaVac and the Oxford-AstraZeneca. Both require two doses for an effective immunization.

THE DATA

The data shown in this report are from the coronavirusbra1 and covid19br websites, which compile the vaccination numbers released by the state health secretariats.

The Ministry of Health also provides a website that publishes data on vaccination: Localiza SUS. However, the figures take longer to be updated.

The Ministry’s platform depends on states and municipalities filling in the data -according to the federal government’s criteria- and submitting them to the Ministry. When a dose is administered, cities and states have 48 hours to notify the Ministry.

The data published by Poder360 is higher than Localiza SUS’s because the developers of the coronavirusbra1 and covid19br websites collect figures from each of the state secretariats, and their direct reports are more up-to-date.

Source: Poder360

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