Hard-hit Brazil Approves First Two Covid Vaccines: Regulator

Umer Jamshaid Published January 18, 2021 | 12:00 AM

Hard-hit Brazil approves first two Covid vaccines: regulator

Bras�lia, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 17th Jan, 2021 ) :Brazil's Anvisa health regulator gave emergency approval Sunday for its first two coronavirus vaccines as the country gears up to roll out a mass inoculation campaign amid a devastating second epidemic wave.

It authorized AstraZeneca and Oxford University's Covishield shot as well as China's CoronaVac for use in the country where the Covid-19 death toll now exceeds 209,000, Anvisa announced.

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