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Brazil health ministry says Fiocruz and Butantan will receive vaccine API within the week

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) will receive two batches of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine's active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) this Saturday, enough to fill 18 million doses, and the Butantan Institute should receive a next batch of the Coronavac API next week, the Ministry of Health's executive secretary Rodrigo Cruz said on Monday, May 17.

Both Fiocruz and the Butantan rely on the delivery of the API sent by China to continue manufacturing the two most widely used immunizers in the country against Covid-19.

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