Boxes of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine are seen at the McKesson Corporation, amid the coronavirus disease outbreak, in Shepherdsville, on Mar 1, 2021. WASHINGTON: The United States on Thursday will ship 3 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson one-shot COVID-19 vaccine to Brazil, the country with the second-highest coronavirus death toll in the world, a White House official said on Wednesday.
The White House said scientific teams and legal and regulatory authorities from both countries worked together to ensure prompt delivery. The official said the vaccines had been cleared by the US Food and Drug Administration and would come from the supply that the United States had immediately available.Brazil had already given regulatory approval to the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, providing the quickest path to getting a large number of doses to the country immediately, the official added.
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