Brazil Health Regulator Suspends Use of 12 Million Sinovac Vaccine Shots

Brazil Health Regulator Suspends Use of 12 Million Sinovac Vaccine Shots
A health worker prepares to administer the COVID-19 CoronaVac vaccine, developed by China's Sinovac firm, at a makeshift clinic at Saeng Thip sports ground in Bangkok, Thailand, on April 7, 2021. Mladen Antonov/AFP via Getty Images
Reuters
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SAO PAULO—Brazil’s federal health regulator Anvisa on Saturday suspended the use of over 12 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine developed by China’s Sinovac Biotech Ltd. that were produced in an unauthorized plant, it said in a statement.

Anvisa said it was alerted on Friday by Sao Paulo’s Butantan institute, a biomedical center that has partnered with Sinovac to locally fill and finish the vaccines, that 25 batches, or 12.1 million doses, sent to Brazil had been made in the plant.