Brazil asked the UN to anticipate vaccine delivery via the COVAX system in the face of the dramatic situation of COVID-19

The President of the Brazilian Senate, Rodrigo Pacheco, asked the United Nations to anticipate the delivery of vaccines against COVID-19 via the COVAX mechanism in the face of the “dramatic situation” in the country due to the coronavirus, which left nearly 92,000 new cases and more than 3,700 deaths in the last day.

Pacheco made the request through a letter to UN Secretary General António Guterres after the Senate approved a motion to “call on” the international community to support the acquisition of inoculators for the country. , reports the Brazilian media G1.

“The situation we are facing is dramatic. Data confirmed by the World Health Organization (WHO) shows that Brazil has become the global epicenter of the pandemic, with more than 12 million confirmed cases and 300,000 deaths, and a worrying acceleration in the contagion curve “, lamented the President of the Senate in the letter.

In it, Pacheco said the health system is “at the limit of its capabilities”. And it is that hospitals are on the verge of collapse as patients affected by the disease wait for an intensive care bed and healthcare professionals also face a lack of protective elements and supplies such as oxygen.

With the vaccine advancement request via COVAX, Brazil intends to accelerate its vaccination plan, for which 23.8 million doses have been applied so far, according to the media consortium which analyzes the pandemic daily.

Specific, 18.5 million people have received at least the first dose and 5.2 million have already received the full regimen.

Brazil is thus seeking a way to cope with the critical situation in which it is overwhelmed by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has already left 12,839,844 accumulated positives and 325,284 dead, against 11,239,099 people who have managed to overcome the disease. .

This week, the country hit its record for daily deaths with 3,869. Likewise, Bolivia closed the border with Brazil to prevent the entry of new variants of the coronavirus, while the WHO warned of ” critical situation “of the Latin American giant.

Brazil started April with 3,769 new deaths in the last 24 hours and 91,097 new infections, which has reached a balance of 325,284 deaths and 12,839,844 cumulative cases since the start of the pandemic.

The Latin American giant closed in March with more than 66,000 deaths, more than double that recorded in February, in the middle of collapse of the health system and despite the measures to restrict public activities.

The country has accumulated multiple daily records of the number of deaths due to covid-19, the last this Wednesday, with 3,869 deaths, a marked upward trend despite the fact that in February the 2,000 daily deaths were never reached.

March was the worst month in the impact in Brazil of covid-19 and during the month 66,573 deaths were recorded, against 30,438 recorded in February, for a cumulative total of 321,515 deaths since the first death was recorded on March 12, 2020, in Sao Paulo , according to data from the Ministry of Health.

(With information from Europa Press)

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