The coronavirus pandemic resulted in 2,839,051 deaths according to the latest AFP tally updated on Easter morning. The United States is the most affected country with 554,779 victims in front of Brazil (330,193), Mexico (203,854), India (164,110) and the United Kingdom (126,816).
Vaccine: AstraZeneca production stop in Baltimore after a mistake
The U.S. government has ordered AstraZeneca to stop manufacturing the coronavirus vaccine at the Baltimore plant where doses of Johnson & Johnson’s serum were produced last month that failed quality checks. The news, anticipated by CNN, was confirmed by the company, which is now looking for an alternative production site. Johnson & Johnson, on the other hand, will continue production at the Emergent Biosolutions factory, on condition that it assumes total control of the procedures. The suspected deterioration led to the blocking of 15 million doses of the serum. The doses of Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine distributed so far in the US have all been produced in the Netherlands and no Emergent Biosolutions-manufactured ampoules have reached the market. A company source told CNN that the blockade will not affect the achievement of the target of 100 million doses delivered to the United States by the end of May. (breaking latest news) Rus
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Brazil, death toll exceeds 330 thousand. The cases of contagion touch the 13 million threshold
The death toll caused by the coronavirus in Brazil has exceeded 330 thousand: this is what emerges from data from Johns Hopkins University. According to the American university, since the beginning of the pandemic the country has recorded a total of 330,193 confirmed deaths due to Covid against 12,953,597 cases of contagion. Brazil, which had passed the threshold of 300,000 deaths last March 24, is the second country in the world after the United States both for the number of infections and for the number of victims in absolute terms.
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