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São Paulo, Brazil
Brazil’s health minister said Tuesday that the collapse of the health network in the capital of Amazonas state was due to “decade-long bottlenecks” and differences in contamination rates possibly caused by the new P1 variant of new coronavirus.
“Apparently, it is a strain that pollutes more, but with a degree of aggressiveness similar to the previous one,” said Eduardo Pazuello, who has been in Manaus since Saturday night.
Pazuello is at the center of a Supreme Court investigation into the ministry’s inadequate response to the collapse of the network in the city of Manaus.
His comments came when the state of Sao Paulo confirmed three cases of COVID-19 related to the new variant.
Pazuello also said that the increase in cases registered in Amazonas at the beginning of the year “was a completely unknown situation for everyone.” He said the government should relocate 1,500 COVID-19 patients from Amazonas to other states for medical treatment, a figure more than six times higher than the initial plan to relocate 235 people.
An audit by the Federal Office of Responsibility (TCU) of Brazil also ruled as illegal the use of resources from the Unified Health System (SUS) for the supply of chloroquine in the treatment of patients with COVID-19.
According to the TCU, the supply of the drug, used to treat malaria and which has not proven its effectiveness against COVID-19, could only have been carried out with the approval of the Brazilian Agency for Health Regulation (Anvisa) or international health authorities. , which they did not. occur.
In his order, TCU Judge Benjamin Zymler requested the Ministry of Health to inform TCU within five days of its official position on chloroquine and to explain the steps taken to demonstrate “consistency” in the ministry’s guidelines to the regional authorities.
Since the start of the pandemic, at least 217,712 deaths from COVID-19 have been registered throughout Brazil, while the total number of infected people has reached 8,872,964, according to figures compiled by the health secretaries of each state.
The country has registered a daily average of more than 1,000 deaths during the last five days. So far, around 685,000 people in Brazil have been vaccinated.
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