[News] Vaccination against COVID-19 advances in several countries

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WHO indicates that there is no reason to stop using the AstraZeneca vaccine and asks to continue to monitor reactions in patients.

Vaccination against the coronavirus advances while some inconveniences appear, such as the pause of the inoculation with the AstraZeneca vaccine in some countries due to adverse reactions, but international institutions ask to continue using it.

Even Brazil announced yesterday that it approved the definitive registration of this British vaccine, claiming that "the benefits outweigh the risks."

The National Sanitary Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) admitted that the AstraZeneca vaccine can cause disorders such as headaches and diarrhea and that there are “uncertainties” that could lead “to adjust the manufacturing process”, which is also carried out in Brazil with the Fiocruz Foundation .

The European Medicines Agency asked to add serious allergies to the list of possible side effects - which includes blood clots - while the World Health Organization stated that "there is no reason not to use" the immunizer.

The Brazilian government also announced the purchase of 10 million doses of the Russian Sputnik vaccine, at a time when the country is urged to accelerate vaccination to contain a virulent second wave that has increased deaths to more than 273,000, indicates AFP, who He adds that remdesivir was also approved in the country.

Meanwhile, the commitment to the single-dose vaccine from Johnson & Johnson (J&J) continues to grow. Paul Stoffels, chief scientist at the pharmaceutical company, said: “It is the first to be studied on a large scale (about 40,000 people in

USA, South America and South Africa), including variants ”.

Meanwhile, the United States government was clear in saying that its priority is to vaccinate its po[CENSORED]tion as soon as possible, defending its decision not to share its doses with other countries or allies, according to EFE.

"There have been requests from around the world, of course from several countries that have requested doses from the United States and we have not provided doses from the United States Government to anyone," said White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki, adding that the surplus vaccines.

The country puts as a reason having almost 30 million infected and more than half a million deaths from COVID-19.

This, while the president of the USA, Joe Biden, ordered the states of the country to guarantee that all adults can make an appointment to be vaccinated when May arrives, with the aim of beginning to mark their “independence from the virus” for the day. July 4th holiday.

In Chile, vaccination is on a very good path and it has even donated vaccines to countries like Ecuador.

Chilean Health Minister Enrique Paris said they hope to have 80% of the po[CENSORED]tion vaccinated by June. Something that can be achieved thanks to the management with the pharmaceutical companies since May 2020 and the good application of the vaccination and registration plan that is carried out.

The South American country has guaranteed 35 million doses from the Pfizer, AstraZeneca and Sinovac laboratories, of which more than 10 million have already arrived. Even Chilean President Sebastián Piñera, 71, received the second dose of the Sinovac vaccine yesterday.

Piñera indicated that they hope to end the first quarter of the year with the highest risk groups (5 million) vaccinated - they have 4.6 million.

In the region, Colombia also seems to accelerate the pace and has already exceeded half a million vaccinated. This country also announced that it is the third in the best recovery of air transportation after Mexico and Ecuador.