The total number of confirmed cases in Brazil exceeds 13.97 million, and another Chinese new crown vaccine is approved for trials in Brazil
China News Service, Sao Paulo, April 19 (Reporter Mo Chengxiong) The Brazilian Ministry of Health released data at 19:20 local time on the 19th, showing that there were 30624 new confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in Brazil that day, and a total of 13,973695 confirmed cases; new deaths There were 1347 cases, with a total of 374,682 deaths; a total of 12,460,712 cases were cured.
The Brazilian National Health Supervision Agency (Anvisa) announced on the 19th that it has officially authorized the "S-trimer" (SCB-2019) new crown vaccine developed by China's Sichuan Clover Biopharmaceutical Company to conduct the third clinical trial in Brazil.
The vaccine is divided into two doses with an interval of 22 days. It will be tested in 8,000 to 12,100 Brazilian volunteers in the states of Rio Grande do Sul, Rio Grande do Norte and Rio de Janeiro.
This is the sixth new crown vaccine approved for Phase III clinical trials in the country so far.
Data map: Sao Paulo, Brazil, vaccinated by the new crown vaccination.
A new batch of 3000 liters of raw materials for China's Coxing New Crown vaccine arrived at Sao Paulo International Airport on the 19th.
Instituto Butantan (Instituto Butantan) will use this batch of vaccine raw materials to locally produce 5 million doses of China's Coxing new crown vaccine, Corona Vac.
The Butantan Institute stated that since January of this year, the Institute has delivered 41.4 million doses of Kellyford's new crown vaccine to the Brazilian government, and will have delivered a total of 100 million doses by the end of September this year.
At present, 85% of the vaccines injected by the Brazilian people are China's Kexing new crown vaccine Kerlaifu.
According to Brazilian media statistics, as of the 19th, more than 26.65 million people in Brazil have been vaccinated against the new crown, accounting for 12.59% of the country's total population.
10.13 million of them have completed the second dose of vaccination.
According to statistics from the Health Departments of Brazil's states, in the past 7 days, Brazil has an average of 65,186 new confirmed cases per day and an average of 2,860 new deaths per day, an increase of 3% compared with the data two weeks ago.
As of the 19th, Brazil had an average of over 1,000 new deaths per day for 89 consecutive days, over 2,000 in 34 consecutive days, and over 2,500 in 24 consecutive days.
As of now, Brazil ranks third in the world in the number of cumulative confirmed cases, second only to the United States and India; while the cumulative number of deaths in Brazil ranks second in the world, behind the United States. São Paulo State, the most severely affected state, has a total of 2,750,300 confirmed cases and 88,528 deaths. (Finish)