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An Estonian medical student works on COVID-19 vaccine rollout in Brazil
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Estonian medical student Endel Willik is gaining medical experience and helping the COVID-19 vaccination rollout in Brasilia while the country is seeing a dangerously high increase in the rate of infection.
Now in his second year at the Higher Education Medical Sciences School – or ESCS – in Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, Willik started studying medicine in March 2020, the same month on which the World Health Organisation declared the COVID-19 outbreak a global pandemic – and a few days after the first COVID-19 infection cases were confirmed in Brazil and in Estonia.