Coronavirus: Brazil’s Butantan Institute to sell Sinovac shots abroad after Jair Bolsonaro rebuffs ‘Chinese vaccine’
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Sep 29 2021 at 8:01 PM GMT
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- Brazil’s Butantan biomedical institute is in talks to sell a locally manufactured Covid-19 vaccine developed by China’s Sinovac to other countries in South America and Africa, as the federal government has not ordered more of the shots.
- Butantan Director Dimas Covas said on Wednesday that the institute also has contracts to supply the vaccine directly to Brazilian states.
- Butantan is currently producing the shot developed by Sinovac Biotech in the Sao Paulo state using inputs imported from China,….
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- Published Sep 29, 2021 8:01 PM GMT