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By Eduardo Simões and Ricardo Brito SAO PAULO/BRASILIA, Dec 30 (Reuters) - Brazil will soon weigh emergency-use approval for AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine after Britain gave the green light on Wednesday, as Latin America's largest country rushes to catch up with immunization programs under way around the hard-hit region. Brazil's health regulator Anvisa met with AstraZeneca Plc representatives in the morning and said the company's local partners, federally-funded biomedical institute Fiocruz, will file for emergency use authorization, without saying when. Britain became the first country in...

(Recasts with mid-February date, adds Pazuello quote) SAO PAULO, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Two coronavirus vaccines, from AstraZeneca and China’s Sinovac, may be ready for use in Brazil by mid-February, the country’s health minister said on Wednesday, although the timing of the national rollout will depend on regulatory approvals. The lack of a fixed date for vaccinations to start in Brazil has become a thorn in the side of President Jair Bolsonaro, as other nations begin immunizing their populations. Speaking on Wednesday, after a ceremony to discuss the national coronavirus vaccination plan, H...