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Brazil sees 227,563 COVID-19 deaths
SAO PAULO, Feb 4, 2021 (BSS/XINHUA) – Brazil registered on Wednesday 1,254
more deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in the last 24 hours, raising the
total death toll to 227,563.
According to the Health Ministry, the number of infections rose to
9,339,420 after 56,002 new cases were detected in the last 24 hours.
Sao Paulo, Brazil’s worst-hit state and its most populated one, has
registered 53,704 deaths and 1,807,009 cases.
Brazil has the world’s second-highest COVID-19 death toll, after the
United States, and the third-largest caseload, after the United States and
India.
The South American country began its vaccination drive on Jan. 17, after
the Health Regulatory Agency (Anvisa) authorized the emergency use of the
CoronaVac vaccine, developed by Chinese pharmaceutical firm Sinovac Life
Science, and a vaccine by AstraZeneca.
Anvisa announced on Wednesday that it is changing the procedure for
approving vaccines for emergency use. From now on, it will not require that
phase III trials be carried out inside Brazil prior to emergency approval.
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