(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) Nearly 70,000 newly diagnosed cases in Brazil in a single day, with a total of 14.04 million confirmed cases
China News Agency, Sao Paulo, April 20 (Reporter Mo Chengxiong) The Brazilian Ministry of Health released data at 18:40 local time on the 20th, showing that there were 69,381 new confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in Brazil that day, and a total of 14,043,076 confirmed cases; new deaths There were 3321 cases, with a total of 378,003 deaths; a total of 12,561,689 cases were cured.
The Governor of the State of Sao Paulo, Joao Doria, announced on the 20th that the state will vaccinate chronically ill patients with the new crown vaccine, and plans to begin on May 10th for those aged between 18 and 59 who have undergone transplantation, Patients with kidney disease and Down syndrome who are being treated are vaccinated.
Vaccination for local rail transit staff will start on May 11.
From May 18th, vaccinate drivers and conductors of the public transportation system.
Brazil's National Health Supervision Agency (Anvisa) urgently authorized the use of "cocktail therapy" in the country on the 20th to treat patients with COVID-19.
The therapy is developed by the Swiss Roche Group and consists of two monoclonal antibodies designed to block the process of new coronavirus infecting the human body.
The therapy is restricted to hospitals in Brazil and is not sold in pharmacies.
In March of this year, the Brazilian National Health Supervision Agency also approved another experimental antiviral drug Remdesivir to treat hospitalized patients with new crowns.
The Brazilian Ministry of Health said on the same day that the Brazilian government is negotiating to purchase another 100 million doses of Pfizer's new crown vaccine.
Previously, Brazil had signed a contract to purchase 100 million doses of Pfizer vaccine.
The first batch of 1 million doses of Pfizer vaccine is scheduled to arrive in Brazil on April 29 this year.
It is expected that Brazil will receive at least 15.5 million doses of Pfizer vaccine by the end of June this year.
According to Brazilian media statistics, as of the 20th, more than 27.17 million people in Brazil have been vaccinated against the new crown, accounting for 12.83% of the country's total population.
10.71 million of them have completed the second dose of vaccination.
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 ranks second in the world after the United States.
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