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Brazilian health authorities announced this Wednesday that a Brazilian citizen who volunteered to test the vaccine being developed by the University of Oxford and the AstraZeneca laboratory has died.
The fatality of the Oxford vaccine trials was João Pedro Feitosa, a 28-year-old recent physician living in Rio de Janeiro.
AstraZeneca’s lab has so far declined to comment on the matter, not even saying whether the Brazilian volunteer had taken an immunizer or a placebo in the context of the Oxford vaccine trials.
According to the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa), the investigation of this case will continue, but the Brazilian body has not yet provided further details, which raises questions of medical confidentiality about the people involved in the tests.
The University of Oxford confirmed the plan to continue testing the covid-19 vaccine and, according to a source linked to Reuters, the test would be suspended if the volunteer who died had received the covid-19 vaccine. According to the agency, “the person was part of a control group that had received the meningitis vaccine.”
