Tag: Anvisa

• 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.

• Saturday, January 8th 2022 - 12:30 UTC

  Anvisa okays COVID-19 vaccine entirely produced in Brazil

  

  Brazil's National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) Friday approved the first nationally manufactured COVID-19 vaccine. The body is also considering a second pediatric drug after having cleared Pfizer's for children aged 5 to 11.

• Monday, January 3rd 2022 - 09:31 UTC

  Brazil's Sanitary regulator strongly recommends suspending the cruise season: Covid-19 in several vessels

  

  Brazil's National Sanitary Surveillance Agency, ANVISA has advised the suspension of the cruise season because of several covid-19 outbreaks onboard pleasure vessels sailing along the Brazilian coast.

• Friday, December 17th 2021 - 09:01 UTC

  Anvisa wants Brazilian children vaccinated against COVID-19

  

  Brazil's National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) Thursday recommended children be vaccinated against COVID-19, despite President Jair Bolsonaro's stance against this type of immunization.

• Tuesday, December 14th 2021 - 09:49 UTC

  Brazil's STF rules proof of vaccination be required to foreign travelers

  

  Brazil's Supreme Federal Court (STF) has ruled over the weekend in favor of a request filed by the opposition to make proof of vaccination against COVID-19 mandatory for all incoming foreign travelers, against the wishes of President Jair Bolsonaro.

• Thursday, December 2nd 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Travel mate of first Omicron case in Brazil found on Paraguayan border

  

  Sanitary authorities have detected one man who lives in neighboring Foz do Iguaçu and works in Paraguay had boarded the same flight from South Africa Nov. 27 carrying a man infected with the Omicron variant of Covid-19 at a time Brazil's National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) warnings were not yet in force.

• Wednesday, December 1st 2021 - 09:53 UTC

  Brazil reports first two cases of Omicron Covid-19 variant

  

  Brazil's National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) Tuesday reported having detected the first two local cases of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, which are also the first two infections of this kind in the entire South American continent.