Covid vaccines being 'traded' for illegal gold in Brazil – latest updates

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Latest updates in global Covid-19 crisis: 🇧🇷 Brazil investigates reports of vaccines being exchanged for illegal gold 🇺🇸 Ex-leaders, Nobel winners urge US to back vaccine waiver ✈️ Study finds that blocking seats on planes reduces virus risk More here:

People stand to receive food aid distributed by the"G10 das Favelas", a group of slum's entrepreneurs, amid the coronavirus pandemic in Sao Paulo, Brazil on April 14, 2021. Federal prosecutors in the Brazilian state of Roraima are investigating reports that illegally-mined gold is being exchanged for Covid-19 vaccines in the Yanomami indigenous reserve, the prosecutors office told Reuters news agency.

The Hutukara Association, which represents the Yanomami people, flagged the issue to prosecutors with the backing of the Instituto Socioambiental, a non-governmental organization. Brazil registered 3,459 COVID-19 deaths and 73,513 additional cases, according to data released by the nation's Health Ministry.

The panel is reviewing six reported cases of rare brain blood clots in women who received the J&J vaccine, a day after the FDA and CDC jointly recommended pausing its use to assess the issue. A waiver would boost vaccine manufacturing and speed up the response to the pandemic in poorer countries which otherwise might have to wait years, they said in a joint letter to Biden sent to news organisations.

 

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