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FDA says it’s OK to squeeze out extra doses of Pfizer vaccine from vials

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FDA says it’s OK to squeeze out extra doses of Pfizer vaccine from vials

Doctors and nurses work to resuscitate a patient in the Covid-19 intensive care unit at the Emilio Ribas Institute of Infectious Disease hospital in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Friday, December 4.
Doctors and nurses work to resuscitate a patient in the Covid-19 intensive care unit at the Emilio Ribas Institute of Infectious Disease hospital in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Friday, December 4. Jonne Roriz/Bloomberg/Getty Images/FILE

Brazil has surpassed 7 million Covid-19 cases Wednesday, according to the nation’s health ministry. 

The government announced a record 70,574 new Covid cases for the previous 24 hours. That brings Brazil’s overall case count to 7,040,608.

Brazil has the world’s third-highest count of coronavirus cases, surpassed only by the US (with 16,873,988 total cases) and India (with 9,932,547 total cases), according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.  

Brazil has also suffered the world’s second-highest Covid-19 fatality rate, having officially recorded 183,735 deaths, after announcing 936 new fatalities on Wednesday. 

Only the US tops that figure, possessing the highest global Covid-19 death toll with some 306,203 confirmed fatalities.

Source: CNN | News Colony

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