Brazil’s Ministry of Health has authorized the purchase of 45 million doses of the vaccine against the novel coronavirus produced by Sinovac and São Paulo’s Butantan Institute. A new report has accused the Chinese government of forcing thousands of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities to work in the country’s cotton fields. The German government has announced its intention of starting a countrywide vaccination campaign against COVID-19 by December 27th. Meanwhile, two different studies, one held in Germany and another in the US state of Kansas, have shown that wearing masks has a considerable effect in the reduction of spreading the novel coronavirus, especially among elderly people. Finally, French government officials have announced that president Emmanuel Macron has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, and will remain in isolation for at least seven days.
Hereâs why Brazilâs Covid-19 vaccine plan is mired in chaos.
A volunteer on a Covid-19 vaccine trial at the Emilio Ribas Institute in São Paulo, Brazil, on Saturday.Credit.Victor Moriyama for The New York Times
By Ernesto Londoño, Manuela Andreoni and LetÃcia Casado
Published Dec. 15, 2020Updated Jan. 6, 2021
As countries rushed their preparations to inoculate citizens against the coronavirus, Brazil, with its world-renowned immunization program and a robust pharmaceutical manufacturing capacity, should have been at a significant advantage.
But political infighting, haphazard planning and a nascent anti-vaccine movement have left the nation, which has suffered the pandemicâs second-largest death toll, without a clear vaccination program. Its citizens now have no sense of when they may get relief from a virus that has brought the public health system to its knees and crushed the economy.
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Brazil s COVID-19 caseload tops 6.9 million, death toll over 1.81 lakh ANI | Updated: Dec 14, 2020 08:52 IST
Brasilia [Brazil], December 14 (ANI): Brazil has registered over 21,000 new COVID-19cases on Sunday, raising the national infection caseload to 69,01,952.
21,825 new cases were reported on Sunday, Xinhua reported citing Brazilian Health Ministry.
The COVID-19death toll in the country rose to 1,81,402 with 279 new fatalities in the last 24 hours.
Brazil is one of the worst impacted countries from the coronavirus. It has second-highest COVID-19death toll after the United States and third highest caseload after the United States and India. (ANI)
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