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The Brazilian health authorities reported this Wednesday the death of a volunteer who participated in the trials of the vaccine against covid-19 at the University of Oxford and the AstraZeneca laboratory, although they did not specify how, or if he received the dose or a placebo .

The

National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa)

, linked to the Brazilian Ministry of Health, said in a note that it was "formally informed" of the event last Monday and that it will continue its "evaluation."

"Based on the ethical confidentiality commitments provided for in the protocol, the regulatory agencies involved receive

partial data regarding the investigation"

carried out by the International Committee on Evaluation and Safety, the body indicated.

The president of Anvisa, Antonio Barra, said in a press conference that "at this moment" clinical trials of the British vaccine "continue" in the country.

The Oxford vaccine is one of the immunizers against the new coronavirus that is being tested in Brazil, where the pandemic already leaves about 155,000 deaths and 5.3 million infected, which places the country as one of the most punished in the world for the disease.

Clinical trials of the potential British vaccine began in Brazil in June with the idea of ​​involving some 10,000 people and only suffered a small interruption in September, when an adverse reaction from a volunteer was reported.

The Federal University of Sao Paulo (Unifesp), which coordinates the vaccine testing in the country, which is in the last phase of testing and is one of the most promising, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) has not yet been has stated about the death of the volunteer, about which officially no details are known.

"Anvisa reiterates that, according to the national and international regulations of Good Clinical Practices, data on clinical research volunteers must be kept secret, in accordance with the principles of confidentiality, human dignity and protection of the participants," he stressed.

Due to its continental dimension and the high incidence of the virus within the national territory, Brazil has become fertile ground for testing candidate vaccines against covid-19.

Vaccines developed by Johnson & Johnson laboratories and the consortium formed by BioNTech (Germany) and Wyeth / Pfizer (United States) are also being tested in the country, as well as those manufactured by the Chinese company Sinovac.

On the other hand, the Brazilian states of Bahia (northeast) and Paraná (south) have expressed their willingness to test Russian Sputnik V among their inhabitants, in the absence of the endorsement of the federal health authorities.

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