Brazil's health minister asks countries with extra vaccine doses to share them
From CNN's Rodrigo Pedroso in Sao Paulo
Workers unload a 1 million-dose shipment of the Pfizer/Biontech vaccine in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on April 29. Nelson Almedia/AFP/Getty Images
Brazil's Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga has asked countries that have extra Covid-19 vaccine doses to share them with Brazil "as soon as possible."
"We reiterate our call to those who have extra doses of vaccines so that they can share them with Brazil as soon as possible to allow us to succeed in advancing our broad vaccination campaign to contain the critical phase of the pandemic and avoid the proliferation of new strains and variants of the virus," said Queiroga during a virtual World Health Organization press conference.