Brasilia: Brazil reported today 376 deaths from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours and accumulates 177,317 since it registered the first death on March 17, the Government reported today.
The update of the Ministry of Health also indicates that 20 thousand 371 new infections were counted and the general figure rose to six million 623 thousand 911.
The government of Sao Paulo announced on the day that immunization against Covid-19 in that state will begin on January 25 with the CoronaVac vaccine, developed by the Chinese biopharmaceutical Sinovac in association with the Butantan Institute.
During a contact with the press, Governor Joao Doria stated that the calendar will give priority to health professionals, indigenous and quilombolas (Afro-Brazilians), followed by the elderly 60 years and older.
“(The plan) was made considering the incidence of coronavirus deaths?,Doria said, presenting a five-phase vaccination schedule.
The immunizer, which will be free, does not yet have the authorization of the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa), which is necessary to be put into circulation.
The São Paulo administration signed an agreement to buy 46 million doses of CoronaVac and transfer the technology to Butantan, whose director, Dimas Covas, assured that ‘every day without a vaccine counts. If it is going to be used we have to start the inoculation. And that, for the simple reason that it can save the lives of thousands of people. “