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(FILES) In this file photo taken on December 03, 2019, the Copa America trophy and the official ball are seen during the draw of the Copa America 2020 football tournament, at the Convention Centre in Cartagena, Colombia. – With two weeks to kickoff, South America’s CONMEBOL football federation on May 31, 2021 moved the Copa America 2021 to Brazil after stripping Argentina of matches amid a Covid-19 surge, and co-host Colombia due to social unrest. (Photo by Juan BARRETO / AFP) When Covid-19 overwhelmed Argentina too badly to host the South American football championships, officials decided to move the tournament to pandemic-battered Brazil of all places, drawing criticism from epidemiologists and a flurry of jokes.
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The government is negotiating the purchase of 350 million doses of coronavirus vaccines for 2021.
The figure includes 210 million of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine that is largely made in Brazil by the Fiocruz institute, 70 million of Pfizer s vaccine, and another 42 million of the one produced by the international conglomerate Covaz.
However, none of those, nor the CoronaVac produced by Chinese laboratory Sinovac, which is being tested in Sao Paulo, have yet asked the regulatory agency Anvisa for emergency use authorization which they will need before they can start vaccinating. Bolsonaro has lost a lot of time with his denials, with his political battles with state governors over quarantine measures, with his campaign against the vaccine and it being mandatory, Jose David Urbaez, from the Brazilian Infectiology Society, told