Brazil signed a contract on Thursday with the Indian pharmaceutical company Bharat Biotech to buy 20 million doses of Covaxin.
Brazil has signed a deal with the pharmaceutical company Bharat Biotech to buy 20 million doses of Covaxin. The Health Ministry of Brazil on Thursday signed the contract for delivery between March and May. The ministry said in a statement that the deal is worth 1.6 billion reais ($290,000), with the first 8 million doses expected to arrive in March.
Amid the second deadliest COVID-19 outbreak, Brazil has accelerated the process of buying vaccines for the country in order to curb the pandemic. The ministry released new guidelines last week dispensing with the bidding process. Brazil reported 1,541 fresh deaths on Thursday. The number is the second highest daily death toll since the pandemic outbreak in November.
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