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Brazil health ministry says plans to order 30 million more Coronavac doses – Metro US

Brazil health ministry says plans to order 30 million more Coronavac doses

FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: A woman holds a
FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: A woman holds a medical syringe and a small bottle labelled “Coronavirus COVID-19 Vaccine

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazil’s health ministry said on Friday it intends to buy 30 million doses of China’s Sinovac vaccine to be produced locally by the Butantan public health institute and delivered between October and December.

The ministry said it has already ordered 100 million of the vaccine together with Butantan to be delivered by September.

(Reporting by Marcelo Rochabrun; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)