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RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Brazil’s Health Ministry expects the country to have 150 million doses of vaccines against COVID-19 available in the first half of next year, Health Regulatory Secretary Arnaldo Medeiros told lawmakers in a hearing on Tuesday, December 22nd.
Medeiros said that estimate includes doses from AstraZeneca, Pfizer and São Paulo’s Butantan Institute, which is filling and finishing a vaccine developed by China’s Sinovac Biotech . . .
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Brazil’s Ministry of Health has authorized the purchase of 45 million doses of the vaccine against the novel coronavirus produced by Sinovac and São Paulo’s Butantan Institute. A new report has accused the Chinese government of forcing thousands of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities to work in the country’s cotton fields. The German government has announced its intention of starting a countrywide vaccination campaign against COVID-19 by December 27th. Meanwhile, two different studies, one held in Germany and another in the US state of Kansas, have shown that wearing masks has a considerable effect in the reduction of spreading the novel coronavirus, especially among elderly people. Finally, French government officials have announced that president Emmanuel Macron has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, and will remain in isolation for at least seven days.
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