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Brazil announces efficacy of China’s CoronaVac vaccine By IANS|   Published: 26th December 2020 6:14 am IST Sao Paulo, Dec 25 : Brazil’s state-run Butantan Institute has announced that the CoronaVac vaccine developed by the private Chinese laboratory Sinovac Life Science achieved the levels of efficacy against the coronavirus required by the World Health Organization (WHO) in trials with 13,000 Brazilian volunteers. “The data corroborate that it is the safest vaccine on the market and we achieved the superiority in efficacy required by the WHO and Brazil’s Health Regulatory Agency (Anvisa),” Dimas Covas, director of the institute, said at a press conference. The level of efficacy required by the WHO is greater than 50 per cent, he said.

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