China cuts COVID-19 vaccine ingredient shipment to Brazil - Reuters

A woman holds a small bottle labelled with a "Coronavirus COVID-19 Vaccine" sticker in this illustration taken, October 30, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/File Photo

China will reduce its shipment of pharmaceutical ingredients for producing COVID-19 vaccines to Brazil's Butantan biomedical institute next week to 3,000 liters from 4,000, Butantan said on Tuesday.

This means the shipment scheduled for May 26 will now make 5 million doses of the Coronavac shot, Butantan said, instead of the 7 million Sao Paulo state Governor Joao Doria had tweeted on Monday.

Butantan, which is backed by the state of Sao Paulo, is producing the Coronavac vaccine with China's Sinovac (SVA.O).

Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Adblock test (Why?)

China cuts COVID-19 vaccine ingredient shipment to Brazil - Reuters
Read More