The number of deaths in Brazil exceeds 210,000, and the emergency vaccination of the national new crown vaccine starts ahead of schedule

　　(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) Brazil has more than 210,000 deaths

　　China News Agency, Sao Paulo, January 18 (Reporter Mo Chengxiong) The Brazilian Ministry of Health released data at 19:10 on the 18th local time, showing that there were 23,671 new confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in Brazil that day, and a total of 8511770 confirmed cases; new deaths 452 cases, 210,299 deaths in total; 7452047 cured cases.

On the same day, Brazil officially launched the national emergency vaccination of the new crown vaccine.

　　Brazil’s Minister of Health Eduardo Pazuello announced on the 18th that the country officially started emergency vaccination against the new crown at 17:00 on the same day, two days earlier than the original schedule.

In the morning, Pazulo went to Guarulhos Airport in Sao Paulo to attend the launch ceremony of the first batch of China's Coxing New Crown inactivated vaccine "CoronaVac" (CoronaVac), and witnessed the shipment of Chinese vaccines to Brazil with more than ten governors. States.

　　As of 20 o'clock on the 18th, Brazil has 10 states including Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Goiás, Santa Catarina, Piaui and Brasilia Federal District have started vaccination in China, and the other 16 states Vaccination will start on the 19th.

　　All the vaccines vaccinated in Brazil that day were Chinese vaccines.

Among the first batch of 6 million doses, 4,636,936 doses were distributed by the Brazilian federal government to states in proportion to the population of each state, and 1,357,640 doses were distributed by the Sao Paulo state government.

　　Brazil's National Health Supervision Agency (Anvisa) announced on the 17th that it has given China an emergency license to use the new crown vaccine "Kierlafor" developed by Sinovac, China.

In addition, the new crown vaccine jointly developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca (AstraZeneca) was also granted emergency use permission that day.

　　At present, Brazil has not yet obtained the British vaccine. The country's original plan to import 2 million doses of British vaccine produced in India from India on January 16 was delayed for some reason.

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