Brazil announces two COVID-19 vaccine candidates
Meanwhile, overseas in Brazil, which has the second-highest COVID death toll in the world after the US, 3,650 new deaths were recorded on Friday.
More than 300,000 have died from COVID-19 in Latin America's biggest country, and Friday's record death toll was the second this week, with a historic 100,158 new coronavirus cases on Thursday.
The country also unveiled its first two domestically developed COVID-19 vaccine candidates for human trials, which although months away from use, should eventually help tame the pandemic.
On Friday, Brazil health regulator Anvisa said it had received a request to start phase 1-2 testing of a vaccine known as Versamune, developed by the University of Sao Paulo, in conjunction with Farmacore and PDS Biotechnology.
Earlier, Sao Paulo's Butantan biomedical institute said it will seek approval to begin human trials for its own vaccine with the goal to begin inoculations in July. That would be an aggressive timeline even considering the recent race for COVID-19 shots.
Butantan aims to produce 40 million doses of the Butanvac vaccine this year, starting in May, officials said, which would help a sputtering national immunisation program.
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