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Story highlights The health ministry in a statement said the 1.6 billion reais ($290,000) contract will assure the country 20 million shots, with the first eight million expected to arrive in March Brazil's health ministry on Thursday signed a deal with India's Bharat Biotech to purchase 20 million doses of Covaxin, a coronavirus vaccine.  The news came a day before Brazil marks one year since the first case of Covid-19 was confirmed in the country after a Sao Paulo businessman returning from a trip to Italy tested positive. Watch |  The health ministry in a statement said the 1.6 billio...

Developments are fast-moving as California and other states work to ramp up the COVID-19 vaccination effort. Here are answers to common questions about the vaccine that we have found from our coverage -- all in one place.

A University of Minnesota pharmacy professor explains how mRNA vaccines build immunity against viruses like COVID-19

Doctors said mRNA sends a message to the body to create what are called spike proteins, which are found on the outside of novel coronavirus cells.