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For the fourth consecutive day, Brazil registered more than a thousand new deaths caused by covid-19 in the last 24 hours. In a bulletin published on Friday (15), the Ministry of Health reported that 1,038 new deaths were registered from yesterday to today. Since the start of the pandemic, 208,133 people have died from the disease.
According to figures from the Ministry, between January 12 and 14, 1,110, 1,274 and 1,131 new deaths from covid-19 were computed, respectively.
There have been 66,047 positive tests for the disease in the last 24 hours across the country. The total number of infected since the beginning of the pandemic has risen to 8,390,341.
According to the federal government, 7,359,353 people have recovered from the disease and an additional 822,855 have been followed.
India says it cannot meet Brazil’s demand
Chancellor Ernesto Araújo made one last unsuccessful attempt to try to maintain the schedule set by the federal government to bring 2 million doses of the AstraZeneca / Oxford vaccine from India to Brazil. In telephone contact with Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Araújo heard that it would not be possible to meet the Brazilian demand at this time.
As the Twitter Upon learning from diplomatic sources, Araújo and Jaishankar spoke and the Indian Foreign Minister clarified that there is a willingness to supply the doses produced by the Serum Institute. However, logistical problems at this time prevent the Asian country from complying with the forecast of the Brazilian government, which was to bring the plane back from India with the doses in time to start the vaccination against covid-19 next Wednesday (20) o Thursday (21).
The main argument is that India will start its own vaccination campaign against the disease caused by the new coronavirus tomorrow. The country has the vaccine to immunize its population because it approved its emergency use on the first day of the year.
In this way, with India’s refusal to immediately respond to the Brazilian government’s request, it will be difficult to maintain the take-off time of tonight’s Azul plane in charge of bringing the doses. The aircraft, which has even been specially assigned to the mission, has been at the Guararapes airport in Recife since yesterday, after leaving Campinas (SP), and was scheduled to depart for the Indian city of Mumbai at 11:00 p.m. (Brasilia time). .
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, 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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