(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) The number of confirmed cases in Brazil is showing signs of rising, and it plans to produce oral antiviral drugs
China News Agency, Sao Paulo, May 5 (Reporter Mo Chengxiong) According to data released by the Brazilian Ministry of Health on the 5th local time, there were 21,682 new confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in Brazil that day, with a total of 30,524,183 confirmed cases; 137 new deaths were added. 663,896 cases died; 29,609,094 cases were cured.
The Instituto Butantan in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo confirmed on the 5th that 2 cases of infection with the new variant of Omicron XQ were found in the state.
The new variant is a recombinant strain of Ormicon variant BA.1.1 and BA.2.
The Brazilian Ministry of Health has confirmed the new variant.
At present, the World Health Organization has released 49 cases of this new variant virus infection, all of which are in the United Kingdom.
On April 7 this year, the Brazilian Ministry of Health confirmed the first case of the Omicron XE variant in the country, which is a recombinant strain of the Omicron variant BA.1 and BA.2.
The Brazilian Ministry of Health has since confirmed three additional cases of XE infection.
The Fiocruz Foundation (Fiocruz), an authoritative Brazilian medical research institution, announced on the 5th that its subsidiary, the Brazilian Institute of Pharmaceutical Technology (Farmanguinhos), has signed a technical cooperation agreement with the US pharmaceutical group Merck & Co. It plans to manufacture the oral anti-coronavirus drug Molnupiravir locally in Brazil.
A day earlier, Brazil's National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) had approved emergency use of the drug in Brazil.
Recently, the number of confirmed cases and deaths of the new crown in Brazil has shown signs of rising.
According to the statistics of the Brazilian state health departments, in the past 7 days, there were an average of 15,087 new confirmed cases per day in Brazil, an increase of 15% from the data two weeks ago; an average of 97 new deaths per day, an increase of 3% from the data two weeks ago. .
According to Brazilian media statistics, as of 20:00 on the 5th, 177.3 million people in Brazil have been vaccinated with the first dose of the new crown vaccine, accounting for 82.56% of the total population; 164.5 million people have completed the entire vaccination, accounting for 76.58% of the total population.
In addition, more than 87.36 million people in Brazil received the third booster dose, accounting for 40.67% of the total population.
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