Data de publicação: 24/05/2021 - 16:54
If the COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating effect worldwide, recovery provides an opportunity for long-overdue changes to finally happen. It is not enough to think of returning to normality as it was before, because this would not be good for anyone, it is necessary to correct the course and direct science, technology, and innovation towards meeting social, environmental, and health objectives. It was on this line of reflection that the...
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Data de publicação: 06/05/2021 - 07:59
The pandemic brought challenges, but also opportunities, according to lecturers on the 6th annual Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology, and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), also known as the STI Forum. In Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic, the forum’s first session, on Tuesday May 4th, specialists on the fields of sciences, technology and economics analyzed the scenario and looked for ways to recover and...
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Data de publicação: 28/04/2021 - 12:55
Published on April 24, the Bulletin of the Fiocruz COVID-19 Observatory, referring to Epidemiological Weeks (EW) 14 and 15, between 4 and 17 April, presents a general overview of the Covid-19 situation in the country and its implications. The new edition shows that the pandemic is hitting younger people. The number of cases and deaths by Covid-19 per age group shows that the differential increase per age group is steady. According to the...
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Data de publicação: 20/04/2021 - 16:01
A study by researchers of the Oxford University shows that the risk of cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) in people with COVID-19 is considerably higher than in those who have been vaccinated with mRNA (messenger RNA) vaccines, such as those by Pfizer and Moderna. In addition to mRNA vaccines, the analysis also included the Oxford/AstraZeneca immunizer, produced in Brazil by the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz).
The survey Cerebral venous...
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Data de publicação: 18/03/2021 - 13:30
The United Kingdom ambassador in Brazil, Peter Wilson, visited the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) on March 5 for a meeting with the president of the institution, Nísia Trindade Lima, and to visit the Immunobiological Technology Institute (Bio-Manguinhos) plant that is producing the Covid-19 Fiocruz vaccine.
Photo: Pedro Paulo Gonçalves
“I greatly admire the work you have you been doing, and we are here to know...
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Data de publicação: 19/04/2021 - 15:55
A “pandemic of inequalities”, which denies people access to water to wash their hands, is one of the factors that have worsened the dissemination of Sars-CoV-2 in Latin America and in the Caribbean. This is the assessment of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and former president of Chile, Michelle Bachelet. A physician herself, last Thursday (April 15) she opened the Advanced Seminaries on Global Health and Health Diplomacy...
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Data de publicação: 18/06/2021 - 09:55
The G7 summit wraps up an important cycle of top-level meetings to evaluate and propose directions for the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Preceded by the G20 Summit on Global Health and the World Health Assembly, both held during the second half of May, the G7 Summit took place last week in Carbsi Bay, Cornwell, United Kingdom, the first to be held after the Trump era.
One of the priority topics was the pandemic. The world had...
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Data de publicação: 09/06/2021 - 09:40
The Bulletin of the Fiocruz COVID-19 Observatory, released last Friday (June 4th), concluded there is a rising trend for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in 12 states, in addition to the Federal District, in epidemiological week 21, between May 23rd and 29th. All regions have worrying figures, mainly those in the South and in the Central-West Brazilian regions. About 96% of SARS cases are caused by the new coronavirus.
The relation...
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Data de publicação: 28/05/2021 - 11:43
In a paper published (5/25) on Nature Medicine, researchers of the Fiocruz Genomic Network and of partner institutions point to the cause of the increase in the number of COVID-19 cases in the state of Amazonas and of the successive replacements of lineages of Sars-CoV-2. The study shows that these factors have been boosted by a combination of reduced social distancing measures and the appearance of a new, more transmissible form of the virus,...
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Data de publicação: 10/03/2021 - 12:53
Many affluent countries, with the necessary technological capabilities and expertise, entered into the production of Covid-19 vaccines or sought the biopharmaceutical companies to block them for themselves through anticipated buying. It is estimated that as early December 2020, 3.8 billion vaccine doses had been guaranteed to these countries by several producers. If one compares that figure with the 3.2 billion doses, that include the 700...
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Data de publicação: 10/03/2021 - 18:21
Fiocruz president, Nísia Trindade Lima, participated in a World Health Organization (WHO) discussion on how investing in research on Covid-19 treatments can increase cooperation at national and international levels, on March 3. The discussion table, named Towards a Shared Research Agenda, included in the debate on how to identify knowledge gaps and research priorities for COVID-19 treatments, to incentivize cooperation and...
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Data de publicação: 12/03/2021 - 11:49
In an extraordinary edition of its Bulletin, the Covid-19 Fiocruz Observatory publishes an updated of the historical series on the occupation of COVID-19 ICU beds for adults in the Brazilian Health System (SUS, in the Portuguese acronym), with data obtained on Monday (8/3). The analysis presents rates verified since July 17th, 2020, and aims to alert to the critical scenario of the country. Check out the full document (in Portuguese)....
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Data de publicação: 15/03/2021 - 11:54
The Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency (Anvisa) granted the definitive registration of the COVID-19 Fiocruz vaccine on March 12. Thus, Fiocruz becomes the first holder of a registration of a COVID -19 vaccine produced in the country and adds to its product portfolio the eleventh vaccine to be supplied to the National Immunization Program (PNI). With the registration, the expectation is that Anvisa will authorize the release of the...
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Data de publicação: 17/03/2021 - 09:46
Faced with the current pandemic scenario, Fiocruz released this Tuesday (March 16), another edition of the Fiocruz COVID-19 Observatory Extraordinary Bulletin. The analysis draws attention to the indicators that point to an extremely critical situation across the country. In the view of the researchers who carry it out, this is the biggest health system collapse in the history of Brazil.
The Bulletin shows that, at the moment, of the...
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Data de publicação: 01/04/2021 - 10:02
The Bulletin of the Fiocruz Covid-19 Observatory, released on March 26, shows that the country is facing the collapse of the health system. At the same time, the pandemic is now taking up new shapes, affecting younger age groups: 30 to 39 years old, 40 to 49, and 50 to 59. In such a scenario, researchers defend the adoption of measures in two interconnected groups.
The first group includes urgent measures that involve the containment of the...
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Data de publicação: 06/04/2021 - 09:24
With the start of Oxford/AstraZeneca-Fiocruz production vaccine on national territory, and the batches delivery to the Ministry of Health, this stage is beginning to give its first results to Brazilian society. Still this year, the country will have a vaccine produced entirely in Brazil and already in this first semester the manufacture of the first batches of the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) will start, which should be available to...
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Data de publicação: 09/04/2021 - 09:08
A paper to be published in May in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC/US) journal Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) shows that a first exposure to COVID-19 in mild or asymptomatic cases may not produce an immune response, and that a person can reinfect himself or herself with the same variant. The second infection can cause stronger symptoms than the first, the study indicates.
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Data de publicação: 12/04/2021 - 12:42
A methodology that aims to make the monitoring of the new coronavirus variants simpler and faster, besides being cheaper, has just been developed at Fiocruz Pernambuco. It is based on a technique that is already widely used and available in Brazil and in the world, the Sanger sequencing - also called sequencing by capillary electrophoresis. The article with this finding has just been made available online as a preprint on the MedRxiv platform....
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Data de publicação: 14/04/2021 - 18:22
Many viruses can hamper coagulation, including those that cause dengue fever and yellow fever. In more severe cases, they may lead to bleeding. This is why these diseases are considered hemorrhagic viral fevers. In a paper recently published in the science magazine “Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz”, a group of ten researchers argues that the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) should be the first agent recognized as acting in the...
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Data de publicação: 29/04/2021 - 18:08
Two drugs used against hepatitis C have been proven effective in inhibiting Sars-CoV-2 replication in cells in laboratory studies. The trial is now entering its phase 2: tests in patients. The results of the first phase of the trial, led by researchers of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), were published on April 21 in a paper for the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, by Oxford Academic. The results of phase 2 will likely be known in...
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Data de publicação: 06/05/2021 - 08:01
The pandemic brought challenges, but also opportunities, according to lecturers on the 6th annual Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology, and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), also known as the STI Forum. In Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic, the forum’s first session, on Tuesday May 4th, specialists on the fields of sciences, technology and economics analyzed the scenario and looked for ways to recover and...
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Data de publicação: 11/05/2021 - 08:58
Although studies suggest that children and adolescents attending summer camps and social events may carry COVID-19 into their homes, work by researchers at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), the University of California (UCLA), and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) indicates that they more often become infected by adults than act as transmitters.
A preview of the article SARS-CoV-2 Infection Dynamics in Children...
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Data de publicação: 05/02/2021 - 10:57
A project of Fiocruz Pernambuco was selected in a public call released by the Federal Government in a partnership with other countries that are part of BRICS - formed by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The public notice’s resources had R$6.2 million provided by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation and R$1 million provided byt the Ministry of Health to fund researches directed to facing the Covid-19 pandemic...
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Data de publicação: 26/03/2021 - 14:14
Autoras: Gabriela Lotta, Michelle Fernandez, Denise Pimenta, Clare Wenham.
Publicação original em inglês.
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Data de publicação: 25/02/2021 - 11:42
On February 5, the Ministry of Health (MoH) and Fiocruz launched a public notice for the construction of the Industrial Complex of Biotechnology in Health (Cibs, in the Portuguese acronym). The document opens a bidding process for hiring investors interested in participating in the construction of a new complex of the Immunobiological Technology Institute of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Bio-Manguinhos/Fiocruz), in Santa Cruz, in Rio de Janeiro....
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