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• Brazil, Morocco may need to wait more for desi jabs

  Countries like Brazil and Morocco may need to wait a few days more for “made-in-India” Covid-19 vaccines as India sharpens its vaccine diplomacy to derive geopolitical and strategic gains.

  

• SII to send 20 lakh doses of vaccine to Brazil in 2 weeks

  Serum Institute of India (SII) will dispatch its first overseas consignment of 20 lakh doses of the Covishield vaccine to Brazil two weeks from now, chief executive officer (CEO) Adar Poonawalla said on Friday.

  

• Accidental rivals: India & China can blame it on Rio

  India and China are, quite unwittingly, on opposing sides of a heated political contest in Brazil, one involving Covishield by the Serum Institute and Coronavac by China’s Sinovac.

  

• No curbs on vax exports, says govt; cos call shots ‘global public goods’

  The government on Tuesday clarified there was no export ban on the approved vaccines with both Serum Institute of India (SII) and Bharat Biotech, the producers of Covishield and Covaxin, respectively issuing a joint statement saying vaccines are global public goods and they would stand by their commitment to supply vaccines globally.

  

• Bolsonaro turns to military allies to set Brazil's coronavirus vaccine policy

  Brazil's leader Jair Bolsonaro is moving to assert control of the nation's independent health regulator, Anvisa, a move some health experts fear will politicize the agency and give the president, one of the world's most prominent coronavirus skeptics, free rein over vaccine approvals.

  

• Brazil surpasses 120,000 Covid deaths

  Brazil is just the second country to surpass a death toll of 120,000 in the pandemic, after the United States, where the number killed is now more than 182,000. Unlike in Europe and Asia, where the virus hit hard and then subsided, Brazil's outbreak is advancing at a slow but devastating pace.

  

• Brazil's Bolsonaro orders $360 million to be set aside for AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine

  Brazil's Acting Health Minister General Eduardo Pazuello said the vaccine could be available for Brazilians by December or January.

  

• Brazil decree to provide $356 million for coronavirus vaccine

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro issued a decree on Thursday to provide 1.9 billion reais ($356 million) in funds to purchase and eventually produce a COVID-19 vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca PLC and Oxford University researchers.

  

• Brazil mulls extending emergency aid amid pandemic

  Brazil will face another "one or two more months of economic difficulties" as a result of the impact caused by the pandemic, Xinhua news agency quoted Guedes as saying on Wednesday.

  

• Brazil, hotbed for Covid-19 vaccine testing, may struggle to produce its own

  If Brazil's underfunded medical institutions are unable to meet their ambitious goals, it would mark the latest failure by President Jair Bolsonaro's government to control the virus. It would also leave Brazil vulnerable to a frenzied global scramble for vaccine supplies.

  

• Brazil President Bolsonaro's wife, minister test positive for Covid-19

  Just days after her husband said he had overcome the virus with a negative test following weeks in quarantine, Bolsonaro's wife Michelle has tested positive, the presidential office said in a statement.