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World Coronavirus Dispatch: Brazil says volunteer in vaccine trial has died

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Yuvraj Malik New Delhi
Brazilian health authority Anvisa said on Wednesday that a volunteer in a clinical trial of the Covid-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University had died but added that the trial would continue.

A source familiar with the matter told Reuters that the trial would have been suspended if the volunteer who died had received the Covid-19 vaccine, suggesting the person was part of the control group that was given a meningitis vaccine. Read more here

Let’s look at the global statistics:

Total Confirmed Cases: 41,236,224

Change Over Yesterday: 440,244

Total Deaths: 1,131,460

Total Recovered: 28,122,798

Nations hit with most cases: US (8,337,144),