Tag: Brazil Health
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The vaccination campaign against Covid-19 in Brazil began last week, after the emergency use approval by the National Health Regulatory Agency (ANVISA) of two vaccines: CoronaVac, from the Butantan Institute, and the Oxford-AstraZeneca, supplied...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Brazil’s health minister Eduardo Pazuello said on Monday, January 18th, that a spiking COVID-19 outbreak in the Amazonian city of Manaus was not tied to a new variant of the virus, and was instead...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - All Brazil’s available vaccine doses will be distributed to the country’s states on Monday, January 18th, Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello said, with vaccinations able to start from 5 PM.
The states had asked the government...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - A vaccine with no needle, no pain and no crying - this is the proposal of Brazilian scientists developing a nasal spray immunizer against the novel coronavirus. The vaccine, which has been under development...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (Reuters) Brazilian health regulator Anvisa on Sunda, January 17th, approved emergency use of COVID-19 vaccines from China’s Sinovac Biotech and Britain’s AstraZeneca, kicking off immunizations as the pandemic enters a deadly second wave.
Minutes after...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Brazil’s health regulator is seeking further data on Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine before considering its approval for emergency use.
Documents supporting drugmaker União Química’s application for emergency use of the vaccine have been returned...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - In Brazil's Center West, the state of Mato Grosso is experiencing its worst situation since the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic in July and August 2020. According to the Health Secretariat, hospitals are on...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Fiocruz infectologist Marcus Lacerda attends to at least 40 cases of Covid-19 in Manaus, capital city of the Brazilian Amazonas state, every day and is surprised that, unlike the first wave in early 2020,...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - One day after advising Mayors that the vaccination campaign against Covid-19 would begin next Wednesday, January 20th, the Ministry of Health finds itself questioned as to its ability to fulfill the pledge.
Indian government officials...