Brazil's President Cancels COVID-19 Vaccine Order From China

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro announced on October 21, 2020, he rejected the planned purchase of 46 million doses of the CoronaVac vaccine candidate, which is produced by a Chinese firm.

On October 20, 2020, Brazil’s health minister Eduardo Pazuello said 'the federal government had reached a deal with Sao Paulo state to buy CoronaVac vaccine doses to be administered starting in January 2020.'

“The Brazilian people will not be anyone’s guinea pig,” Bolsonaro said on Twitter. “My decision is to not purchase such a vaccine.”