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For the fourth consecutive day, Brazil registered more than a thousand new deaths caused by covid-19 in a 24-hour interval. In a bulletin published on Friday (22), the Ministry of Health reported that from yesterday to today 1,096 new deaths caused by the disease were counted, bringing the total number of deaths since the beginning of the pandemic to 215,243.
According to figures from the Ministry, between January 19 and 21, 1,192, 1,340 and 1,316 new deaths were registered in a 24-hour interval. The last two are, respectively, the second and third biggest brand of the year: the 2021 record was verified on the 7th, with 1,524.
There were 56,552 positive diagnoses for the new coronavirus from yesterday to today. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the total number of infected people across the country has reached 8,753,920.
According to the federal government, 7,594,771 people recovered from the disease, with another 943,906 being followed.
Anvisa directors authorize the use of the 2nd batch of CoronaVac
At a meeting this afternoon, the board of Anvisa (National Health Surveillance Agency) unanimously approved the emergency use of a second batch of CoronaVac, a vaccine against the new coronavirus produced by the Butantan Institute in association with the Sinovac laboratory in China. .
The director of Anvisa Meiruze Freitas, speaker of the request made by the Butantan Institute, was the first to vote in favor of the approval of the new batch. His vote was followed by the CEO of Anvisa, Antonio Barra Torres, and by the other three directors of the agency: Rômison Mota, Alex Machado Campos and Cristiane Gomes.
“The vaccine meets the quality, safety and efficacy criteria for emergency use,” Freitas said when he voted to approve the second batch of the immunizer.
Before the vote of the directors, the General Management of Medicines and the General Management of Inspection and Sanitary Inspection of Anvisa issued a favorable opinion for the approval of CoronaVac.
Vehicles gather to obtain information
In response to the decision of the government of Jair Bolsonaro to restrict access to data on the covid-19 pandemic, media Twitter, El Estado de S. Paulo, Folha de S.Paulo, O Globo, G1 and Extra formed a consortium to work collaboratively to seek the necessary information directly from the state health departments of the 27 units of the Federation.
The federal government, through the Ministry of Health, should be the natural source of these figures, but the attitudes of the authorities and the president himself during the pandemic cast doubt on the availability of the data and its veracity.
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