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Brazil approves two COVID-19 vaccines, Sao Paulo nurse gets first jab

MM News Staff by MM News Staff
January 22, 2021

SAO PAULO: Brazil’s health regulator gave emergency approval for two coronavirus vaccines, kicking off a mass inoculation campaign amid a devastating second epidemic wave killing over 1,000 people in the vast South American nation daily.

Monica Calazans, a 54-year-old nurse in Sao Paulo became the first person in Brazil to receive the Chinese CoronaVac jab after the Anvisa watchdog’s highly-anticipated ruling.

Anvisa also approved AstraZeneca and Oxford University’s Covishield shot for use in the nation whose Covid-19 death toll now exceeds 209,000 — surpassed only by the United States.

Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello announced the government would start distributing vaccines to all 27 states on Monday for a national inoculation campaign to start Wednesday.

As Anvisa met in the capital Brasilia, activists gathered outside to inflate a larger-than-life effigy of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, his hands dripping with metaphorical blood.

Bolsonaro, who has downplayed the virus and railed against lockdowns, face masks and other “hysteria,” has come under renewed fire for his handling of the epidemic after a fresh outbreak that has hit the northern Amazonas state particularly hard.

While many countries have already started vaccination drives, including some among its neighbours, Brazil with its population of some 213 million has lagged behind.

CoronaVac has been dragged into a political standoff between Bolsonaro, who has repeatedly tried to discredit it, and Sao Paulo Governor Joao Doria, a defender.

Doria attended the ceremonial first vaccination of Calazans at an event that also saw Vanusa Costa Santos, a member of the Kaimbe tribe, receive a jab. Pazuello denounced the Sao Paulo event as a “marketing ploy” by Bolsonaro’s rival.

Health workers, people older than 75, residents of old age homes and indigenous populations will be the first to be vaccinated once the national campaign starts in earnest. Both vaccines require two doses.

CoronaVac is produced by China’s Sinovac firm with the Butantan Institute in Sao Paulo. It has been approved for emergency use in China, Indonesia and Turkey.

The AstraZeneca jab is produced by the Serum Institute in India, has been approved in Britain, Argentina and India, and is under review by the European Union.

Sao Paulo already has six million doses of the CoronaVac vaccine, and the health ministry announced this month it had signed a deal with Butantan to produce 100 million more.

Last week, Bolsonaro announced a commercial plane would be sent to India to collect two million doses of Covishield, though New Delhi, which has just launched its own mass inoculation campaign, has yet to give the green light.

The approval came amid a devastating second wave of the COVID-19 epidemic that has seen hospitals in the Amazon rainforest city of Manaus running out of beds and life-saving oxygen.

Bolsonaro blames state governors and mayors for the health and economic crisis unleashed by the coronavirus, claiming the federal government has distributed all the resources needed to combat the epidemic.

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