Brazil allows the use of these two vaccines to treat Corona .. “AstraZeneca” and “Coronavac”
The Brazilian Agency for Health Supervision authorized the emergency use of two vaccines against Corona, the British "AstraZeneca" and the Chinese "Coronavac", which are the first vaccines to gain approval in Brazil, which launches a vaccination campaign on Wednesday. In the midst of a second outbreak, more than a thousand deaths in the country are claimed daily.
In Sao Paulo, 54-year-old nurse Monica Calasans received the Coronavac vaccine. By doing so, you became the first person to receive the authorized Chinese vaccine.
And announced the Minister of Health Eduardo Pazuelo. The government will start distributing doses of the two vaccines on Monday to all 27 states of the country. In preparation for launching the vaccination campaign on Wednesday.
This approval, announced by the "Envisa" regulator, paves the way for the start of the vaccination campaign in Brazil, which will initially use the Coronavac vaccine produced by the Chinese company Sinovac in cooperation with the Brazilian Institute Butentan. It is the only vaccine available in the country at the moment.
The AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine is produced by the Serum laboratory in Bombay in partnership with the FiucroS Foundation from the Brazilian Ministry of Health.
