Tag: Anvisa

• Saturday, November 26th 2022 - 10:12 UTC

  Brazilian-developed COVID-19 vax begins clinical trials

  

  Volunteers were given Friday their first injections of SpiN-Tec MCTI UFMG, a vaccine against COVID-19 developed in Brazil “with national technology and inputs” and “financed with resources from Brazilian institutions,” according to Agencia Brasil.

• Wednesday, November 23rd 2022 - 18:30 UTC

  Brazil back to mandatory facemasks on airplanes and at airports

  

  Brazil's National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) Wednesday approved the return effective Nov. 25 of the mandatory use of face masks in airplanes and airports in a move to reduce the risk of COVID-19 contagion after a significant increase in the number of cases in recent weeks.

• Friday, August 26th 2022 - 17:46 UTC

  Brazil greenlights import of vaccine, drug against monkeypox

  

  Brazil's National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) Thursday cleared the Health Ministry in separate but unanimous decisions to import and use the Jynneos / Imvanex vaccine and the drug Tecovirimat, both against monkeypox.

• Thursday, August 18th 2022 - 20:52 UTC

  Brazil's Anvisa signals end of mandatory facemasks in airplanes

  

  Brazil's National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) has agreed to end the mandatory wearing of facemasks on airplanes, which will be henceforth just “recommended,” it was reported. The measure will become effective as soon as it is published in the Official Gazette.

• Tuesday, August 16th 2022 - 20:30 UTC

  Brazilian port of Santos handles growing volumes of trade

  

  The state-owned Santos Port Authority (SPA) reported over the weekend that volumes handled through the largest seaport in Brazil grew 2.3% between April and June of 2022, reaching 42 million tons of goods.

• Saturday, July 23rd 2022 - 10:29 UTC

  Anvisa still waiting for Pfizer's reply regarding their covid-19 vaccine

  

  Brazil's National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) has requested some additional information from Wyeth/Pfizer regarding booster doses of their COVID-19 vaccine for children and adolescents and is still waiting for a reply, Agencia Brasil reported Friday.

• Thursday, June 9th 2022 - 09:34 UTC

  First case of monkeypox confirmed in Brazil

  

  A 41-year-old man from São Paulo who had just returned from Spain has been confirmed Wednesday as Brazil's first case of monkeypox. The patient is now in isolation at the Emilio Ribas Hospital in South America's largest city, which is also monitoring a 26-year-old woman, also in isolation, but with no travel record.

• Wednesday, May 25th 2022 - 09:40 UTC

  Brazil not to isolate monkeypox patients, for now, Anvisa says

  

  Brazil's National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) Tuesday made it clear that measures already in place at airports and inside airplanes were being upped to protect people from COVID-19 as well as from other diseases and pointed out it isolating patients to tackle monkeypox was not among the recommendations issued.

• Thursday, February 10th 2022 - 21:20 UTC

  Brazilian House passes bill to speed up use of controversial agrochemicals

  

  Brazil's Lower House passed a bill late Wednesday whereby requirements for the certification of chemicals used in agriculture would be eased. The measure was supported by the agribusiness sector and criticized by environmentalists.

• Saturday, January 29th 2022 - 09:23 UTC

  Brazil's Anvisa outlines differences between pediatric COVID-19 vaccines

  

  Brazil's National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) Friday released a statement warning of the differences between COVID-19 vaccines for children to highlight the specifics of newly-released drugs.