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The director of the Butantan Institute, Dimas Covas, rejected the label that the Coronavac vaccine, produced by the Butantan Institute in partnership with the pharmaceutical company Sinovac, is a “Chinese vaccine,” as it has been called mainly by supporters of President Jair Bolsonaro (no party ). For Dimas, the label was placed on the immunizer against covid-19 for “political and ideological” purposes.
“First, it is not a Chinese vaccine, it is Brazilian, from the Butantan Institute. It is a vaccine that will be incorporated into the Butantan portfolio. And, in a short time, this vaccine will be like others, absolutely 100% Chinese,” replied Dimas. , during the participation in the program “Roda Viva” of TV Cultura.
“Astrazeneca vaccine is produced in China, the raw material is produced in Wuhan, the raw material we use is produced in Beijing [Pequim, capital da China]. The two factories, both in Sinovac and the one contracted by Astrazeneca, were recently inspected by our Anvisa (National Health Surveillance Agency). This is the main point: the label that was placed is absolutely for political and ideological purposes ”, he added, referring to the vaccine developed in the alliance between Astrazeneca, the University of Oxford and, in Brazil, the Fiocruz Foundation.
Later, FioCruz pulmonologist Margareth Dalcomo, who also participated in the debate on the program, criticized the label Coronavac, from Butantan, received, saying it was “an even naive prejudice.”
“People have to understand to end this prejudice that is even naive, right? From the Chinese vaccine, or something like that. China is the world’s largest producer of biotechnology inputs. If we take it under the knife, everything is Chinese. The factory that produces the inputs for Astrazeneca is in China and has now been visited. People have to know that, that everything we receive, even the raw materials, to make medicines.
Covid numbers on the rise in Brazil
Brazil registered 526 new deaths caused by covid-19 this Monday (14) and completed eleven days with an upward trend in the moving average of deaths, with 18 states and the Federal District accelerating. The data comes from the press media consortium from which Twitter It is part of.
There were 651 deaths on average in the last 7 days, representing a 24% acceleration in the 14-day variation.
In total, the country has already recorded 181,945 deaths caused by the disease since the start of the pandemic. There were 27,419 new positive diagnoses for the disease from yesterday to today across the country. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the number of infected people in Brazil has reached 6,929,409. There was an average of 651 deaths in the last seven days.
Health data
The Ministry of Health announced today that Brazil has registered 433 new deaths from covid-19 in the last 24 hours. The total number of deaths caused by the disease reached 181,835 since the start of the pandemic.
From yesterday to today, there have been 25,193 new positive tests for COVID-19 across the country. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the number of people infected with the new coronavirus has risen to 6,927,145.
According to the folder, 6,016,085 people recovered from the disease, with another 729,225 being followed.
