(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) The cumulative number of confirmed cases in Brazil exceeds 8.25 million, and the mayor of Goiânia has died
China News Agency, Sao Paulo, January 13 (Reporter Mo Chengxiong) According to data released by the Brazilian Ministry of Health at 19:10 on the 13th local time, there were 60,899 new confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in Brazil that day, and a total of 8,256,536 confirmed cases; new deaths 1274 cases, 205964 deaths in total; 7277195 cases cured.
According to Brazilian media reports on the 13th, Maguito Vilela, the mayor of Goiânia, the capital of Goiás state in central and western Brazil, died in a hospital in Sao Paulo at the age of the same day due to COVID-19 and its complications. 71 years old.
On October 20 last year, Villera was diagnosed with new coronary pneumonia, when he was participating in the mayoral campaign.
Two days later he was taken to a hospital in Goiania for treatment.
On October 27 last year, Villera was rushed to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Albert Einstein Hospital in São Paulo due to his worsening condition.
On November 29, Villera, who was intubated in the hospital, was elected mayor of Goiânia in the second round of elections.
This year’s New Year’s Day, the day of the swearing-in of the mayor of Brazil, Villera held a video inauguration ceremony in the hospital ward and became the mayor of Goiânia.
Brazilian Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello said on the 13th that the Brazilian government will send a special plane to Mumbai, India on the 14th, to deliver 2 million doses of Oxford vaccine produced in India. It is expected that the vaccine will be on the 16th. When they arrive in Brazil, they will be distributed to the health departments of the states by the Brazilian Ministry of Health.
The Brazilian National Health Supervision Agency (Anvisa) said on the same day that the agency will organize experts on the 17th to analyze the results of the Phase III clinical trials of the Chinese Coxing Vaccine and the British Oxford Vaccine in Brazil to determine whether to approve the two vaccines. Emergency use in Brazil.
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