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By Syndicated Content By Allison Martell and Euan Rocha (Reuters) – To fight the pandemic at home, the United States gave its own vaccine manufacturers priority access to American-made materials needed to make the shots. As a result, the U.S. government laid claim not only to vast quantities of finished COVID-19 vaccines but also to vaccine components and equipment all along the supply chain, according to a Reuters review of more than a dozen contracts involving some major suppliers. That has left some countries desperately in need of those supplies to scramble for substitutes, ...

Fri, 7th May 2021 16:00 By Allison Martell and Euan Rocha May 7 (Reuters) - To fight the pandemic at home, the United States gave its own vaccine manufacturers priority access to American-made materials needed to make the shots. As a result, the U.S. government laid claim not only to vast quantities of finished COVID-19 vaccines but also to vaccine components and equipment all along the supply chain, according to a Reuters review of more than a dozen contracts involving some major suppliers. supplies to scramble for substitutes, exacerbating international disparities in vaccine access, accord...

10 Apr 2021 / 08:59 H. (Adds COVID-19 numbers) By Eduardo Simões and Pedro Fonseca SAO PAULO, March 31 (Reuters) - Brazil has detected a new COVID-19 variant that is similar to the one first seen in South Africa, the head of Sao Paulo's Butantan institute said on Wednesday, as Latin America's biggest country notched another record daily death toll. Butantan President Dimas Covas said the patient with the variant had no history of travel to South Africa. The South African variant has alarmed public health experts as there are questions of how effective current vaccines are against it. Brazil...

10 Apr 2021 / 09:01 H. (Adds Bolivia border closure) By Eduardo Simões and Amanda Perobelli SAO PAULO, April 1 (Reuters) - Brazil's biggest city on Thursday sped up efforts to empty old graves, making room for a soaring number of COVID-19 deaths as Sao Paulo city hall registered record daily burials this week. Gravediggers in the Vila Nova Cachoeirinha cemetery in the city's northern reaches worked in white hazmat suits to open the tombs of people buried years ago, bagging decomposed remains for removal to another location. Relocating remains is standard in cemetery operations, said the mun...

10 Apr 2021 / 09:01 H. (Adds Bolsonaro vaccine comment in paragraph 10) By Eduardo Simões and Amanda Perobelli SAO PAULO, April 1 (Reuters) - Brazil's biggest city on Thursday sped up efforts to empty old graves, making room for a soaring number of COVID-19 deaths as Sao Paulo city hall registered record daily burials this week. Gravediggers in the Vila Nova Cachoeirinha cemetery in the city's northern reaches worked in white hazmat suits to open the tombs of people buried years ago, bagging decomposed remains for removal to another location. Relocating remains is standard in cemetery opera...