(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Brazil has a total of more than 29.8 million confirmed cases, and the national intensive care bed utilization rate is less than 60%
China News Agency, Sao Paulo, March 25 (Reporter Mo Chengxiong) According to the data released by the Brazilian Ministry of Health on the 25th local time, there were 34,576 new confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in Brazil that day, with a total of 29,802,257 confirmed cases; 256 new deaths were added. There were 658,566 deaths; a total of 28,433,713 cases were cured.
The Fiocruz Foundation (Fiocruz), an authoritative medical research institution in Brazil, issued an announcement on the 25th that at present, the utilization rate of intensive care unit (ICU) beds in 26 states and a federal district in Brazil is less than 60%, which is For the first time since July 2020, this data shows that the new crown epidemic in Brazil continues to improve, and the pressure on medical institutions around the country is further reduced, which is an optimistic situation.
However, the agency said that although the current epidemic in Brazil has slowed down, the virus transmission rate is still high. It is recommended that people continue to wear masks in outdoor closed places and open places where crowds gather.
Brazil's Butantan Institute (Instituto Butantan) announced on the 25th that the new vaccine factory built by the Institute in Sao Paulo will be postponed to the first half of 2023 and can produce 100 million doses of vaccine annually, including cooperation with China Sinovac. The new crown vaccine "CoronaVac", as well as rabies, Zika virus and hepatitis A vaccines, are jointly produced by Sinovac.
The project started construction in November 2020 with a total investment of 189 million reais ($1 is about 4.8 reais) and a construction area of 11,000 square meters. It was originally scheduled to be put into operation in January 2022.
According to the statistics released by the Brazilian state health departments, in the past 7 days, the daily average of newly confirmed cases in Brazil was 32,069, a decrease of 30% from the data two weeks ago; the daily average of new deaths was 251, a decrease of 41 from the data two weeks ago %.
According to Brazilian media statistics, as of 20:00 on the 25th, 175.3 million people in Brazil have been vaccinated with the first dose of the new crown vaccine, accounting for 81.64% of the total population; 159.7 million people have completed the entire vaccination, accounting for 74.38% of the total population.
In addition, more than 74.86 million people in Brazil received the third booster dose, accounting for 34.85% of the total population.
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