Brazil Selects China's COVID-19 Vaccine

Brazil’s health minister Eduardo Pazuello stated the country would add the Chinese-made CoronaVac vaccine to its national immunization program against COVID-19. Pazuello is reported by the SCMP to say: 'Brazil's federal government had reached a deal with Sao Paulo state to buy 46 million vaccine doses to be administered starting in January 2020.'

Brazil is a South America country of 212 million residents and has registered about 5.3 million SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus cases and 155,000 fatalities related to COVID-19.