This brings the total amount of people who succumbed to COVID-19 up to 345,025. There are also 3,572 deaths under investigation by health teams.
Antônio Barra Torres, director-president of Brazil’s national sanitary authority Anvisa,argues Brazil is at the mercy of producers of vaccine supplies.
“These are very rare cases of blood clot formation linked to thrombocytopenia—a reduction in the number of platelets (cell fragments that help clot the blood). In some cases, the bleeding may be associated with vaccine use. The cases were reported in a few countries,” Anvisa declared.
The country reached 340,776 lives lost to the pandemic of the novel coronavirus, as per the report released Wednesday (Apr. 7) by the Health Ministry.
New cases confirmed in 24 hours totaled 86,979, raising Brazil’s case tally to 13,100,580 infected since the pandemic started, with 11,558,774 having recovered, and 1,204,849 currently monitored by health agents.