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About 90% of Sinovac Biotech Ltd employees and their families have taken an experimental coronavirus vaccine. (AFP Photo)

Brazil halting COVID-19 vaccine trial surprises the world

CoronaVac is being tested in seven Brazilian states, plus the federal district where the capital Brasilia lies.

10 Nov 2020 12:53 PM IST

Brazilian pediatric doctor Monica Levi, one of the volunteers who received the COVID-19 vaccine, speaks during an interview at the Specialized Clinic in Infectious and Parasitic Diseases and Immunizations (CEDIPI), in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The doctor is one of the 5,000 volunteers participating in Brazil of the phase 3 trials - the last before homologation - of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine, developed by the University of Oxford together with the British pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca. (AFP)

Brazil healthcare staff volunteer to test coronavirus vaccines

Brazil is also the first country carrying out Phase 3 trials of Chinese vaccine CoronaVac, developed by pharmaceutical...

30 July 2020 9:11 AM IST