Another possible covid-19 vaccine begins tests in Brazil 1:03
(CNN) –– Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said Thursday that the experimental vaccine against covid-19 from the University of Oxford and the biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca could be available to Brazilians from «December or January», and with that the pandemic would "get over" in a matter of weeks. The president gave these statements during a live Facebook broadcast.
"Perhaps in December or January there is the possibility of the vaccine and then this problem will be overcome, a few weeks later," he said before referring to the governor of the state of Sao Paulo, Joao Doria, who signed an agreement with the Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinovac. for the purchase and production of its experimental vaccine.
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"And what is more important about this vaccine that is different from the other, that a governor decided to agree with another country, (is that) we can maintain the technology. We can say that we did the possible and the impossible to save lives, "added Bolsonaro.
The two vaccines, Oxford / AstraZeneca and Sinovac, are currently conducting a phase 3, click-on trial in Brazil.
Bolsonaro was present at a ceremony to sign a law guaranteeing about $ 355 million for the deal with Britain's lab. Of that $ 262 million, they will go to AstraZenca to purchase technology and vaccine supplies sufficient for 100 million doses, and $ 93 million to Fiocruz, the Brazilian partner, to adapt its manufacturing plant for mass production. of the vaccine.
5,000 volunteers for covid-19 vaccine tested in Brazil 3:01The deal, which was announced by the government on June 27, has yet to be officially signed.
The acting health minister, General Eduardo Pazuello, who was also at the ceremony, affirmed that the Brazilian government does not rule out agreements with other vaccines and that the ministry continues "looking for all the technologies in the world" to combat the coronavirus.
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