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Brazil sees no limit on buying vaccines from India, eyes mid-January delivery

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Reuters
05 January, 2021, 09:20 pm
Last modified: 05 January, 2021, 09:21 pm

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Brazil sees no limit on buying vaccines from India, eyes mid-January delivery

In a joint statement, the Brazilian Foreign Ministry and Health Ministry said talks between Brazil’s Fiocruz biomedical center and the Serum Institute of India to ship finished doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine are well advanced

Reuters
05 January, 2021, 09:20 pm
Last modified: 05 January, 2021, 09:21 pm
FILE PHOTO: Vials of AstraZeneca's COVISHIELD, coronavirus disease (Covid-19) vaccine, are seen before they are packaged inside a lab at Serum Institute of India, Pune, India, Nov. 30, 2020. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Vials of AstraZeneca's COVISHIELD, coronavirus disease (Covid-19) vaccine, are seen before they are packaged inside a lab at Serum Institute of India, Pune, India, Nov. 30, 2020. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas/File Photo

Brazil's government said on Tuesday that India is not restricting the export of coronavirus vaccines made there, which the South American country aims to buy and import within weeks.

In a joint statement, the Brazilian Foreign Ministry and Health Ministry said talks between Brazil's Fiocruz biomedical center and the Serum Institute of India to ship finished doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine are well advanced, with delivery expected in mid-January.

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