Brasilia: Brazil on Thursday reported fresh 1,254 corona deaths in the last 24 hours. With the addition of these cases, the total death toll reaches to 227,563. According to the Health Ministry, the number of infections rose to 9,339,420 after 56,002 new cases were reported in the last 24 hours.

Sao Paulo has registered 53,704 deaths and 1,807,009 cases. Brazil has the world's second-highest corona death toll, after the United States, and the third-largest caseload, after the United States and India. Brazil began its vaccination drive on Jan. 17, after the Health Regulatory Agency (Anvisa) authorized the emergency use of the CoronaVac vaccine, developed by Chinese pharmaceutical firm Sinovac Life Science, and a vaccine by AstraZeneca.

Anvisa announced on Wednesday that it is changing the way of approving vaccines for emergency use. From now on, it will not require that phase III trials be carried out inside Brazil prior to emergency approval.
Talking about global cases, The total number of coronavirus cases worldwide topped 104 million on Wednesday. According to the latest tally from Johns Hopkins University, as of 7 p.m. ET, 104,269,426 confirmed cases of COVID-19 had been confirmed globally.To date, the virus has claimed 2,264,118 lives around the world.

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