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Brazil has reported more than 5.5 million confirmed cases of coronavirus infections, and about 160,000 people have died from COVID-19, the disease that can be caused by the virus.
The COVID-19 vaccination campaign in Brazil is an ongoing mass immunization campaign for the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil. It started on 17 January 2021, when the country had 210 thousand deaths. [10] The Instituto Butantan imported the first 6 million doses of CoronaVac in a collaboration with the Chinese company Sinovac Biotech. [11]
Vaccination campaign in Passira, state of Pernambuco, in 2020. Vaccination in Brazil includes all the practice and social issues related to vaccines in Brazil.. The National Program for Immunization (Programa Nacional de Imunizações, or PNI) of the Unified Health System is the national government agency overseeing vaccination in Brazil.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday replaced his tourism minister, the first cabinet reshuffle of his administration, as he seeks to shore up support for his political agenda ...
The COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil has resulted in 37,511,921 [1] confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 702,116 [1] deaths. The virus was confirmed to have spread to Brazil on 25 February 2020, [4] when a man from São Paulo who had traveled to Italy [5] tested positive for the virus. The disease had spread to every federative unit of Brazil by 21 March ...
A former health minister denied receiving any direct orders from President Jair Bolsonaro during his 10 months in the post, providing the first day of his Senate testimony Wednesday that analysts ...
Minister Luiz Eduardo Ramos sent an e-mail to 13 ministries regarding 23 accusations and criticisms about the performance in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil. In the list were accusations of early treatment, negligence of the government in buying vaccines, militarization of the Ministry of Health , minimization of the pandemic in Brazil ...
The vaccine has become the backbone of immunization efforts in Brazil as it fights the world's second-deadliest coronavirus outbreak, accounting for five out of every six shots given through April.