09 July 2020 - João Doria, governor of Brazil’s richest and most populous state São Paulo, said on Monday that trials of a new potential vaccine against COVID-19, developed by China’s SinoVac, will start on July 20.
…The trials, to be done in partnership with the Instituto Butantan, will involve 9,000 volunteers spread across 12 research centers located in Sao Paulo and four other states as well as the federal district Brasília.
The announcement comes as Brazil’s federal government announced over the weekend that it had signed an agreement to produce another potential vaccine, developed by pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca with researchers at Oxford University.
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- https://in.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-brazil-vaccine-tests/brazil-trials-of-potential-chinese-covid-19-vaccine-to-begin-july-20-idINS0N2DG014
- https://in.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-brazil/brazils-sao-paulo-expects-approval-this-week-to-trial-chinese-coronavirus-vaccine-idINL1N2E617X
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