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Covid-19: Brazil adopts a Chinese vaccine despite the controversy

2020-10-21T06:34:08.674Z


Brazil will adopt a Chinese vaccine against the new coronavirus as part of its immunization campaign, Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello announced Tuesday, October 20, despite the controversy surrounding this treatment. Read also: China is stepping up partnerships to keep its lead in the development of a vaccine The CoronaVac vaccine, developed by the Chinese laboratory Sinovac, had been tested on


Brazil will adopt a Chinese vaccine against the new coronavirus as part of its immunization campaign, Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello announced Tuesday, October 20, despite the controversy surrounding this treatment.

Read also: China is stepping up partnerships to keep its lead in the development of a vaccine

The CoronaVac vaccine, developed by the Chinese laboratory Sinovac, had been tested on thousands of volunteers in six states of the country, including that of Sao Paulo, the most affected by the pandemic.

The Brazilian government has reached an agreement with this state to buy 46 million doses that should be administered from next January, Pazuello said during a video conference with the governors of the country's 27 states.

"

It will be the vaccine of Brazil

", launched the minister, recalling that the Latin American giant of 212 million inhabitants was also counting on the partnership between the British University of Oxford and the Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical group AstraZeneca .

This is our great novelty.

This rebalances the process,

”he added, while Brazil is the second country most bereaved by the disease, with more than 154,000 dead, behind the United States.

The issue of vaccines has taken on a political dimension in Brazil where far-right President Jair Bolsonaro has repeatedly criticized the Chinese vaccine, opposing Sao Paulo State Governor Joao Doria, one of its main political rivals.

Bolsonaro notably declared that the vaccine would be "

not compulsory

", contrary to the wish of the governor.

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Source: lefigaro

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