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Brazil to buy single-shot Chinese COVID-19 vaccine

Updated: 2021-06-18 13:37
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COVID-19 vaccines are being manufactured at a CanSino Biologics factory in Tianjin on April 25, 2021. [Photo by Feng Yongbin/China Daily]

BRASILIA - Brazil plans to buy 60 million doses of the single-shot COVID-19 vaccine developed by China's CanSino Biologics for delivery in the third and fourth quarters of this year, according to a negotiation document reviewed by Reuters.

A ministry official signed a letter of intent on June 4 to purchase the doses with a Brazilian pharmaceutical company that represents CanSino in Brazil, Belcher Farmaceutica do Brasil, the document said.

The vaccine, trade-named Convidecia and developed by CanSino together with the Academy of Military Medical Sciences, will cost $17 per dose, it said.

Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga told a Senate commission investigating the handling of the coronavirus pandemic in Brazil last week that the government is seeking to buy new vaccines to diversify its supply. He cited possible acquisition of the CanSino shot.

Reuters

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