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Today, Brazil recorded an increase of 800 deaths from covid-19 in the last 24 hours, totaling 131,274 deaths from the disease caused by the new coronavirus, according to the media consortium of which the Twitter It is part of. The figures are the result of a survey with state health departments and were consolidated at 8 pm.
Since 20:00 yesterday, 31,880 new cases have been registered. With today’s data, the country reached 4,315,858 infected.
Previously, the Ministry of Health counted, between yesterday and today, 814 new deaths from covid-19, totaling 131,210 deaths in Brazil from the new coronavirus.
Today, the total number of people infected by the disease in the country amounts to 4,315,687, with 33,523 positive tests registered in the last 24 hours.
Oxford University resumes testing
The vaccine developed by the University of Oxford will be retested, together with AstraZeneca. The announcement was made on Saturday, after a week of pause in clinical tests after the discovery of a case of side effects. The vaccine is the bet of the Brazilian government that, a few months ago, closed an agreement of one billion dollars with the consortium to have access to the future product.
In Brazil, Anvisa indicated that it is still waiting for data. “Oxford University has informed the National Health Surveillance Agency about the authorization to resume testing as part of the clinical study with the covid-19 vaccine,” the agency says. “But so far, the Agency.
Vehicles gather for information
In response to the decision of the government of Jair Bolsonaro to restrict access to data on the covid-19 pandemic, the media UOL, O Estado de S. Paulo, Folha de S.Paulo, O Globo, G1 and Extra They formed a consortium to work collaboratively to seek the necessary information directly from the state health departments of the 27 units of the Federation.
