Oxygen-starved city in Brazil’s Amazon starts immunization
by Marcelo Silva De Sousa, The Associated Press
Posted Jan 19, 2021 10:21 am EDT
Last Updated Jan 19, 2021 at 10:28 am EDT
RIO DE JANEIRO The Amazonian city of Manaus in Brazil began administering vaccines against the coronavirus, providing a ray of hope for the rainforest’s biggest city whose health system is collapsing amid an increase in infections and dwindling oxygen supplies.
Amazonas state Gov. Wilson Lima led a ceremony that kicked off the vaccination campaign Monday night in Manaus, an isolated riverside city of 2.2 million people.
Vanda Ortega, 33, a member of the Witoto ethnicity and a nurse technician, received the first dose of CoronaVac, a vaccine developed by Beijing-based biopharmaceutical company Sinovac.
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