Sources: AP
Brazil begins a COVID-19 vaccination program for children aged 5 to 11 years old with the Pfizer–BioNTech vaccine despite objections from President Jair Bolsonaro. 2022-01-14
India surpasses 400,000 deaths from COVID-19, becoming the third country to do so after the U.S. and Brazil. 2021-07-2
Brazil reports its first case of the 501.V2 variant, which was originally detected in South Africa, in a person from São Paulo. 2021-04-7
Alberta reports its first case of the Lineage P.1 variant, which was originally detected in Brazil. 2021-03-14
British Columbia reports its first three cases of Lineage P.1 variant first detected in Brazil. 2021-03-9
Ohio reports its first cases of the Lineage P.1 variant first detected in Brazil. 2021-03-7
The United Kingdom reports their first cases of the Lineage P.1 variant first detected in Manaus, Brazil in three people from England and three people from Scotland. 2021-02-28
Alaska reports their first case of the Lineage P.1 variant first detected in Brazil in a person from Anchorage with no known travel history. 2021-02-24
Oklahoma reports its first case of the Lineage P.1 variant originated from Brazil in a woman who had a travel history. 2021-02-5
Sinovac Biotech's CoronaVac appears to be safe in providing protection against COVID-19, as preliminary results of Phase III clinical trial in Brazil show. São Paulo's Instituto Butantan, one of Brazil's leading biomedical research centres carrying out the trials, says CoronaVac proved to be safe after its two doses were applied to 9,000 volunteers, but said data on how effective it is in protecting people against COVID-19 will not be released until it has been tested on all 15,000 volunteers in newly expanded trials. 2020-10-19