Coronavirus: Brazilians protest potentially mandatory Chinese COVID-19 vaccine

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Hundreds of Brazilians gathered in Sà£o Paulo on Sunday to protest the state government's plans to make a Chinese coronavirus vaccine mandatory. People held signs reading "We aren't guinea pigs" and "My body belongs to me," in opposition to Gov. Joà£o Doria's plans to start vaccinating people in January if China's Sinovac vaccine receives regulatory approval by the end of the year. Vaccine policy has led to a simmering debate between Doria and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who has said the government would not buy the specific COVID-19 vaccine in question. Sao Paulo's biomedical research centre, the Butantan Institute, is…