(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) The cumulative number of confirmed cases in Brazil exceeds 18.9 million São Paulo state announces relaxation of epidemic prevention measures

  China News Agency, Sao Paulo, July 7 (Reporter Mo Chengxiong) According to data released by the Brazilian Ministry of Health at 18:10 on the 7th local time, there were 54,022 new confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in Brazil that day, and a total of 18,909,037 confirmed cases; new deaths There were 1648 cases and a total of 528,540 deaths; a total of 17,352,670 cases were cured.

On June 20th, local time, roses were placed on the Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to mourn the 500,000 new crown deaths in Brazil.

The picture shows people "planting roses" on the beach.

  The Sao Paulo state government announced on the 7th that the state’s current implementation of the “transitional phase” between the “red phase” and the “orange phase” of the epidemic prevention “restriction order” will be extended to July 31, allowing shops, shopping centers, and restaurants. , Gyms, barber shops and other commercial establishments can be opened from 6 am to 23:00 every day from the 9th, which is 2 hours longer than the original business hours, and the number of customers received has been relaxed from 40% to 60% of the original capacity.

In addition, starting from July 17, the state plans to hold 30 test large-scale business activities, including music festivals, concerts, fairs and sports events.

  The Sao Paulo state government also announced that from August 2nd, the state’s universities and technical colleges will resume classroom teaching, but only 60% of the total number of students can be accepted.

Since the beginning of June last year, the São Paulo State’s economic restart plan has been divided into five stages according to the severity of the epidemic, and the anti-epidemic and quarantine measures have been relaxed in turn.

  Brazil’s National Health Supervision Agency (Anvisa) announced on the 7th that the new crown vaccine "ButanVac" independently developed by the country’s authoritative medical research institution Instituto Butantan will officially start clinical trials on the 9th. Phase II and Phase II clinical trials are divided into three phases. In the first phase, 418 volunteers will participate in the trial.

Approximately 6,000 volunteers participated in the two phases of the trial.

  At present, Brazil's new crown vaccination rate is accelerating.

As of 20 o'clock on the 7th, more than 80.86 million people in Brazil have received the first dose of the new crown vaccine, accounting for 38.19% of the total population; 28.79 million people have completed two doses of vaccination, or vaccinated with only one dose New crown vaccine, these fully vaccinated people accounted for 13.6% of the total population.

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