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A University of Campinas study finds that the CoronaVac COVID-19 vaccine is less effective against the Lineage P.1 Gamma variant, which originated in Brazil.
2021-07-9

Brazilian health regulator Anvisa grants a conditional approval for the Sputnik V and Covaxin vaccines.
2021-06-4

India surpasses 300,000 deaths from COVID-19, becoming the third country to do so after the United States and Brazil. India recorded its last 100,000 deaths in less than a month. Experts warn that the real number of deaths could be much higher as many are not officially recorded; some models speculate that about a million people may have actually died.
2021-05-24

Ireland reports its first three cases of the Lineage P.1 variant in people who travelled from Brazil.
2021-02-19

Maryland reports their first case of the Lineage P.1 variant first detected in Brazil in a deceased adult aged older than 65 living in Washington metropolitan area, who had international travel.
2021-02-17

Spain will restrict travel to South Africa and Brazil due to concerns about new variants of SARS-CoV-2.
2021-02-2

The government extends the Level 5 lockdown restrictions until March 5. They also agree to impose a 14-day mandatory hotel quarantine for all travelers without negative COVID-19 test results as well as all travelers from Brazil and South Africa.
2021-01-26

Germany reports their first case of the more contagious B.1.1.248 variant in a person who travelled from Brazil to Hesse.
2021-01-22

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

The Brazilian state of Bahia is expected to conduct phase III trails of Russia's Gam-COVID-Vac vaccine and buy 50 million doses.
2020-09-11