FILE PHOTO: Elderly people wait in line to receive a dose of the Sinovac's CoronaVac coronavirus disease vaccine, during a vaccination day for 65-year-old and older citizens in Duque de Caxias near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil March 29, 2021. REUTERS/Ricardo MoraesSAO PAULO: Brazil hopes to use veterinary facilities to increase COVID-19 vaccine output, authorities said on Saturday , as the country accounts for the world's worst daily death tolls and its vaccination efforts lag.
"This is not just to supply the internal market and increase our capacity but also for Brazil, as a leader in Latin America, can offer its vaccines to other countries," Queiroga told reporters. As Brazil has come to have the world's worst daily COVID-19 death tolls, Bolsonaro is making a bigger push to secure vaccines, including asking the United States for spare doses.Brazil's Fiocruz Institute has a partnership with AstraZeneca to manufacture its vaccine, while the Butantan Institute has a similar partnership with China's Sinovac Biotech to make CoronaVac.
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