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Brazil’s Fiocruz to suspend Covid-19 vaccine delivery for 2 weeks

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) on Thursday said it will suspend deliveries to the Ministry of Health for 2 weeks of AstraZeneca vaccine doses against Covid-19 bottled by the institution due to a delay in the shipment of raw materials.

Two active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) shipments landed in Brazil on August 25 and 30, and a new batch will be delivered this Friday, September 3, later than originally scheduled.

With the delay, the next deliveries of completed vaccine batches are only scheduled for the week of September 13 to 17.

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