(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) The cumulative number of confirmed cases in Brazil exceeds 8.75 million São Paulo state improves epidemic prevention measures

  China News Agency, Sao Paulo, January 22 (Reporter Mo Chengxiong) The Brazilian Ministry of Health released data at 18:20 local time on the 22nd, showing that there were 56552 new confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in Brazil that day, and a total of 87,529,920 confirmed cases; new deaths 1096 cases, 215,243 deaths; a total of 7,594,771 cases were cured.

Local time, December 21, 2020, Sao Paulo, Brazil, people wearing masks shopping in a local supermarket.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Mo Chengxiong

  The Governor of the State of Sao Paulo, Joao Doria, announced on the 22nd that in view of the recent worsening of the epidemic, the state will upgrade its epidemic prevention measures from that day, stipulating that from 8 pm to 6 am from Monday to Friday, and on Saturdays and weeks. On Sundays and holidays, all cities in the state once again returned to the “red” stage of the highest level of epidemic prevention. Except for essential services such as supermarkets, bakeries, and pharmacies, all shops, shopping centers, restaurants, bars and other places were closed.

At the same time, all hospitals across the state will cancel ordinary scheduled surgery from the same day, and postpone the offline resumption time of schools in the state from February 1 to February 8.

  São Paulo State is the most severely affected state in Brazil.

As of the 22nd, the state has a total of 1679759 confirmed cases and 51192 deaths.

At present, the state's intensive care bed (ICU) occupancy rate has jumped from 61.8% in early January this year to 70.8%.

On that day, there were 13,711 new crown patients hospitalized in the state, of which 6053 were severely ill.

  Brazil’s National Health Supervision Agency (Anvisa) made a decision on the 22nd to approve the 4.8 million doses of Kelly produced in Brazil by the Instituto Butantan in São Paulo State using raw materials provided by China’s Beijing Sinovac Biotechnology Co., Ltd. (Sinovac) Emergency use of CoronaVac's new crown vaccine.

Previously, the bureau had approved 6 million doses of Kellyford's new crown vaccine for emergency use in Brazil.

  On the same day, the Brazilian government imported 2 million doses of British Oxford vaccine produced in India from India and shipped to Brazil, 5 days later than the original schedule.

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