Suara.com – Victim pandemic Covid-19 still falling, as of Friday 26 February 2021 worldometers data shows as many as 113.5 million citizens of the world have been infected Covid-19.
Of the total cases, as many as 2.5 million lives have been lost and 89 million people have recovered and have recovered. Now there are still 21.8 million people who are positive and are still being treated.
The United States recorded the most deaths due to Covid-19, namely 520,737 people died. Brazil ranks second and penetrates 251,881 people who died, with daily deaths reaching 1,582 people.
The deaths of a quarter of a million in Brazil, marking one year since Brazil’s first confirmed case of Covid-19, came from a businessman named Sao Paulo after traveling from Italy.
It remains in the memory of how at that time Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro scoffed at the advice of health experts. In fact, he also ridiculed the use of masks and the lockdown policy which was urgently needed at that time.
Now the Brazilian government is also facing harsh criticism for failing to secure the vaccine stocks it needs. Slum and poor cities in Brazil are the most affected and most vulnerable because of the weak immune systems of their citizens.
Especially in Amazon, Manaus is the city which is the location of the largest mass grave in Brazil for burying Covid-19 patients. Moreover, the unavailability of oxygen also often becomes an obstacle to handling Covid-19 in Brazil.
Brazil buys Covid-19 vaccine made in India
Quoting Channel News Asia, the latest decision by the Brazilian Ministry of Health on Thursday, February 25, 2021, Brazil decided to sign a contract to purchase 20 million doses of Covaxin, the Covid-19 vaccine made by India Bharat Biotech, to be delivered later in March to May 2021.
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Brazil’s Ministry of Health said in a statement that the vaccine was purchased for $ 290,000, or the equivalent of IDR 4.2 billion, and 8 million doses of this will arrive in March.
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