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The vaccine the university of Oxford is now being put to the test in Brazil


A vaccine against the new coronavirus, which is being developed by the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, has begun to be tested in Brazil, the second country with the largest number of cases and deaths due to the pandemic.

The testing began in the State of São Paulo, the richest and most populous in Brazil, in the last week-end, after approval by the Agência Nacional de vigilância Sanitária (brazilian health surveillance agency), is responsible for overseeing the tests and the medicines.

The initiative is coordinated by a Central point of Reference for Immunization in Special (CREATE) at the Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp), and has the financial support of the Foundation, Lemann, maintained, and created by a billionaire, the brazilian Jorge Paulo Lemann.

In a statement, Foundation, Lemann, celebrated the beginning of the testing of the vaccine in Oxford, in Brazil, although he warned that the results won’t be immediate.

“Experts in the field have a significant way to go before we can celebrate a good result. What’s next, we don’t even know,” said the Fundação Lemann.

The project aims to test the vaccine on a group of 2,000 people in Brazil, making it one of the first in the country to start trials in humans outside the United Kingdom in order to evaluate the vaccination against the Sars-Cov-2.

The results of the tests, according to the Unifesp), it will be essential for the registration of the vaccine in the United Kingdom, scheduled for the end of the year, and that will depend on the completion of the studies, carried out in all participating countries.

Brazil is the country of the Portuguese-speaking worlds most affected by the pandemic, and is one of the hardest in the world, while accounting for the according to the number of infected and dead, more than 1.1 million cases, and 51.271 of whom died), after that of the United States of america.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned this week that the number of infected could be higher, given that, according to the agency, the country conducted a few tests to find out how many people you have had contact with the virus in Brazil.

The multi-covid-19 and has already resulted in more than 472 thousand deaths and infected more than 9.1 million people in 196 countries and territories, according to an evaluation made by the French agency, AFP.

The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus found in the end of December, and in Wuhan, a city in central China.

After the eu must have happened to China at the epicentre of the pandemic, in February, on the american continent, it is now the one that has the most confirmed cases, and more deaths.

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