Brazil reaches agreement to begin administering Chinese-made coronavirus vaccine


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LINE Brazil’s health minister said on Tuesday that the country would add the Chinese-made CoronaVac vaccine against Covid-19 to its national immunization program, despite a political and diplomatic row over whether to use it. Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello said the federal government had reached an agreement with the state of Sao Paulo, which helps test and produce the vaccine, to buy 46 million doses to be administered by January. “This vaccine will be Brazil’s vaccine,” in addition to another developed by Oxford University and pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, Pazuello told a video conference with the 27 governors of the South American...