Covid-19: 66.5% of the population aged over 12 is immunized in Brazil

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The figure corresponds to 121,764,779 of the nearly 182 million Brazilians in this age group, with the full vaccination cycle.

In total, 156,324,440 people received at least one dose, corresponding to 85.4% of the population aged 12 and over. The booster dose was administered to 10,794,448 people.

In the past 24 hours, 2,269,586 vaccines were administered.

Adding the first, second, and single doses, a total of 288,883,667 doses have been administered.

Currently, the country has 4 vaccines available to fight the disease. The CoronaVac, Oxford/AstraZeneca, and Pfizer/BioNTech laboratories recommend administering two doses of their immunizers. Janssen foresees only one application for complete immunization.

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