Brazil's World Cup qualifying clash against Argentina was sensationally abandoned shortly after kick-off on Sunday as controversy over Covid-19 protoc.
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“Brazil will become the most populated country of South America to use the Russian vaccine,” Dmitriev said.
Brazil s National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) Friday approves, albeit with some restrictions, imports of Covaxin and Sputnik V doses for use in up to 1% of the country s population, it was announced.
The country currently uses CoronaVac, AstraZeneca/Oxford, Pfizer/BioNTech and Janssen immunizers. The new decision applies only to specific batches.
In the case of Covaxin, the authorization defined the amount of 4 million doses, which can only be used under specific conditions determined by the Agency.
As for Sputnik, the number of doses will be restricted to 1% of the population of each of the six requesting states: Bahia, Maranhão, Sergipe, Ceará, Pernambuco and Piauí.
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1 Jun 2021
The president of the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL), the regional branch of FIFA on the continent, announced on Monday that its Copa América soccer tournament would move from Argentina to Brazil over Chinese coronavirus concerns.
Organizers originally planned to hold the Copa América in 2020 but postponed the event due to the severity of the coronavirus crisis in the chosen host countries, Argentina and Colombia. Last week, CONMEBOL relieved Colombia of hosting duties due to ongoing leftist riots nationwide. Argentina appears to have quietly withdrawn from hosting duties given the announcement from CONMEBOL President Alejandro Domínguez on Monday.
Brazil Accuses Russia of Sending Vaccines Carrying Live Cold Virus
30 Apr 2021
The top regulatory health authority of Brazil banned Sputnik V, a Chinese coronavirus vaccine candidate developed by Russia, on Wednesday citing, among other flaws, that samples it studied contained a live virus that causes respiratory illness.
Brazil’s National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) also asserted that Russia’s Gamaleya Institute, which produced the vaccine candidate, did not provide “consistent and reliable data” on the efficacy of Sputnik V.
Sputnik V was the first vaccine candidate for use against any coronavirus approved for widespread use by a large country. Russian leader Vladimir Putin personally approved the distribution of the vaccine candidate in the country in August 2020 despite it not yet having completed the typically necessary Phase III of clinical trials. Putin has no known medical background. While he claims to have been vaccinated against coronavirus, he has n