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China’s Sinovac vaccine to be included in Brazil’s immunization program, governors say

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China's Sinovac vaccine to be included in Brazil's immunization program, governors sayThe Brazilian government will include China’s Sinovac vaccine against COVID-19 in its national immunization program, state governors said on Tuesday after a meeting with the country’s health minister, in addition to one developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University. This means the experimental Chinese vaccine called Coronavac, which Brazil’s largest state of Sao Paulo had hoped to provide to its residents, may also be used to vaccinate Brazilians elsewhere, a major success for Sinovac in a nation of 230 million people. The federal government already has plans to purchase the UK vaccine and produce it at its biomedical research center FioCruz in Rio de Janeiro, while the Chinese vaccine is being tested by Sao Paulo state’s research center Butantan Institute.

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