Brazil "Does not recommend Chinese vaccines... Booster shots should be Pfizer"

On the 9th of last month (local time), President Jair Bolsonaro held a meeting with Arthur Lira, Speaker of the House, at the House of Representatives in Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, to discuss the expansion of government spending.

Brazil has effectively decided to exclude Chinese vaccines from its COVID-19 booster shot program.

Marcelo Queiroga, Brazil's Minister of Health, stated at a press conference on the 3rd (local time) that the additional vaccination with the Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinovac's COVID vaccine will not be recommended.

He added that booster shots will primarily be administered using the American Pfizer vaccine.

In Brazil, skepticism about the efficacy of Chinese COVID vaccines has grown, leading to calls for additional vaccinations.

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health announced in a report released that more than 83% of the total adult population of approximately 160 million, about 132 million people, have received their first dose, and around 64 million people, corresponding to 40%, have completed their vaccinations.

On the other hand, the World Health Organization (WHO) approved the emergency use of the Sinovac vaccine in June, but various countries have raised controversy over the vaccine's low immune effectiveness, referring to it as a so-called "water vaccine."

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