No More Beds: Brazil s Amazonas State Transfers Covid Patients
01/15/21 AT 2:43 PM
Facing the imminent collapse of its health system, Amazonas state in northern Brazil started transferring coronavirus patients to other regions Friday as hospitals run out of beds and oxygen.
Nine patients out of 235 identified for transfer were flown in the early morning hours to the state of Piaui on an air force plane, state authorities reported, with further flights planned to other states later Friday.
Amazonas state, with Manaus as its capital, has been hard hit by a resurgence of the virus.
It has a death rate of 143 per 100,000 inhabitants, one of the highest in Brazil, with a national average of 98.5 deaths per 100,000.
Brazil s President Says Country Is Broke
01/05/21 AT 10:43 PM
With state subsidies to fight poverty now ended, Brazil s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday said his country is broke and he is unable to do anything about it, attributing the crisis to the press-fueled coronavirus.
The subsidies which have kept millions of Brazilians from destitution ended as the pandemic, which has killed almost 200,000 people in the country, only worsens. Brazil is broke, boss, I cannot do anything, the former army officer said, responding to one of the supporters who greeted him in front of his official residence in the capital Brasilia.
PRESS RELEASE
Emergex Vaccines signs Collaboration Agreement with Brazil’s Bio-Manguinhos/Fiocruz for the Development of a COVID-19 Vaccine
Agreement provides a framework for future clinical trials, manufacturing, sales and marketing, and distribution within the National Health Service of Brazil
Bio-Manguinhos, is a world leader in vaccine development and manufacturing and one of the productive units of Fiocruz, one of the world s most respected public health research institutions
Abingdon, Oxon, UK, 5 January 2021 – Emergex Vaccines Holding Limited (‘Emergex’, or ‘the Company’), a company tackling major global infectious disease threats through the development of synthetic ‘set point’ vaccines which prime the T-Cell immune response, today announces that it has signed a collaboration and development agreement with the Institute of Technology on Immunobiologicals (Bio-Manguinhos) of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) in Brazil to develop a COVID-19 vaccine usi
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