{"id":88351,"date":"2020-08-19T12:20:14","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T04:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=88351"},"modified":"2020-08-19T12:20:16","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T04:20:16","slug":"covid-19-brazil-approves-final-tests-of-jj-virus-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=88351","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Brazil approves final tests of J&#038;J virus vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Brazil-approves-final-tests-of-JJ-virus-vaccine.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Brazil-approves-final-tests-of-JJ-virus-vaccine.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>BRASILIA, Aug 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Brazilian health regulators said they had approved Johnson &amp; Johnson\u2019s experimental vaccine against the new coronavirus for the final stage of clinical trials, the fourth vaccine to receive widespread testing in the hard-hit country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The US pharmaceutical company\u2019s subsidiary Janssen will test the vaccine on 7,000 volunteers across seven states in Brazil, part of a group of up to 60,000 worldwide, health regulator Anvisa said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It said the test would be a randomized, controlled, double-blind Phase 3 trial, or large-scale testing on humans \u2014 the last step before regulatory approval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnother vaccine study has been approved in Brazil, which is a very important development,\u201d Anvisa official Gustavo Mendes said in a video on the regulator\u2019s website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brazil has become a key testing ground in the search for a vaccine against COVID-19, since the virus is still spreading fast in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The South American nation has the second-highest number of infections and deaths in the pandemic, after the United States: nearly 3.5 million and 110,000, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brazil has also approved three other Phase 3 trials of vaccine candidates, developed by Oxford University in partnership with pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca, Chinese pharmaceutical firm Sinovac Biotech, and US firm Pfizer in partnership with Germany\u2019s BioNTech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Brazilian state of Parana also signed a deal last week to test and produce Russia\u2019s \u201cSputnik V\u201d vaccine, which controversially became the first in the world to receive regulatory approval. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRASILIA, Aug 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Brazilian health regulators said they had approved Johnson &amp; Johnson\u2019s experimental vaccine against the new coronavirus for the final stage of clinical trials, the fourth vaccine to receive widespread testing in the hard-hit country. The US pharmaceutical company\u2019s subsidiary Janssen will test the vaccine on 7,000 volunteers across seven states [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":88354,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,215,209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88351"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}