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Brazilian authorities have suspended human-level testing of the coronavirus vaccine, invented by China’s Sinovec Biotech to combat the coronavirus, because they have seen an incident of ‘serious adverse reactions’.
Anvisa, Brazil’s health regulator, said the incident occurred on October 29. However, they did not give details.
Anvisa said Monday that it had postponed the test after seeing serious adverse effects from the vaccine.
The company did not say where the incident occurred.
However, Dimas Kovas, director of the Institute for Medical Research, which is testing the vaccine in Brazil, told local media that the vaccine had been suspended due to the death of one person. However, he claimed that his confession had been obtained through torture.
They are in contact with the Brazilian authorities about the incident.
One of the few vaccines in the world that is in the final stages of the fight against coronavirus is the coronavac vaccine invented by Sinovek Biotech in China.
Sinovek states that he is confident that the vaccine is safe.
It is not uncommon for a vaccine to be temporarily stopped during testing. Another Covid-19 vaccine was discontinued in the UK last September due to adverse reactions. However, the vaccination was resumed a few days after authorities decided it was safe.
In addition to Brazil, Indonesia and Turkey are testing the vaccine. However, there was no information on the suspension of vaccination activities.
Brazilian President Zaire Bolsonaro has already announced his interest in the AstraZeneca vaccine, saying that his government will not buy any Covid-19 vaccines made in China.
Thousands of people in China have already been vaccinated under the emergency program.
Brazil is one of the countries most affected in the world by the coronavirus. More than 57 lakh people have been infected there.
The country has the second highest number of deaths after the United States and India.
There was also an agreement to conduct this vaccine trial in Bangladesh. But later, the company stopped with a request for government funding to run the test.
Source: BBC
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