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Mexico City, Mar 9 (EFE) .- Mexico not only has multiple agreements in place with international pharmaceutical companies but also is working on its own Covid-19 vaccine projects, a task being carried out by several different universities.(CAMERA: Juan Manuel Ramirez)Statements in Spanish fromEdda Sciutto, research coordinator of the IIBm of the UNAM:"Development is going more slowly because we had to acquire a lot of materials, we had materials in the lab, but we had to wait for the supply we needed before starting our research. However, we believe that, with the necessary equipment, we should have a national vaccine by October this year."
16 states across the US broke a grim record on Friday, reporting their highest total of people hospitalized for COVID-19 since the pandemic began. Business Insider reports that since last fall, cases of COVID-19 have surged nationwide, particularly following the end of the holiday season. Alabama, Arkansas, Maryland, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia were hit hardest. Record hospitalizations were also seen this week in Arizona, California, Delaware, and Maine. The US Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization for two COVID-19 vaccines at the end of 2020. However, a slow rollout means it will be many months before all who want a vaccination are immunized.
Surges of COVID-19 patients are threatening to overwhelm hospitals across the nation. CNN reports at least 123,639 people across the country were in the hospital with the novel coronavirus on Saturday. The COVID Tracking Project says that marks the 32nd consecutive day that the number of hospitalizations has exceeded 100,000. Cases skyrocketed after the Thanksgiving holiday. The fallout form Christmas and New Year's celebrations are still unfolding. Johns Hopkins University data reveals that as of Saturday, more than 20.4 million people have been infected with the virus in the US. At least 350,186 people have died from the illness.
Sao Paulo, Jul 28 (EFE).- Brazil, confident of having the Oxford University COVID-19 vaccine in December, is closing in on 90,000 deaths during the epidemic that since the end of May has killed an average of 1,000 people per day in the country and threatens to worsen in the southern regions with the arrival of winter.As reported on Tuesday by the Ministry of Health, and without the consolidated data from the state of Pará, to be updated Wednesday, in the last 24 hours Brazil registered 921 new deaths from COVID-19, bringing the total number to 88,539. (Camera: WALLACE CARVALHO). SHOT LIST: B-ROLL OF PEOPLE WEARING FACE MASKS IN SAO PAULO, BRAZIL.
Thousands of demonstrators from across the US march in Washington, DC, to decry Covid-19 mandates. Mostly maskless, the protesters walk from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial in a city that has adopted mask and vaccine mandates. IMAGES