Brazil embraces Chinese Covid vaccine after row


Sao Paulo Governor Joao Doria holds Covid-19 vaccine, CoronaVac produced by China's Sinovac Biotech, at Hospital das Clinicas in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on July 21, 2020. After initial resistance, Brazil has accepted the vaccine for use on its national immunisation programme. – AFP/Sao Paulo government handout, October 21, 2020.

BRAZIL’S health minister said yesterday the country would add the Chinese-made CoronaVac vaccine against Covid-19 to its national immunisation programme, despite a political and diplomatic row over whether to use it.

Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello said the federal government had reached a deal with Sao Paulo state, which is helping test and produce the vaccine, to buy 46 million doses to be administered starting in January.


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