Brazil to receive over 842 thousand Pfizer doses in June

Brazil is set to receive 842,400 doses of the vaccine by pharmaceutical company Pfizer/BioNTech against COVID-19, as the share it has been assigned as part of international consortium Covax Facility. The announcement was made by the consortium coordinators to the Foreign Ministry. The delivery should take place in June.

“It is worth noting that these 842,400 doses are not part of the 100 million purchased by the Health Ministry directly from the pharmaceutical firm,” the Brazilian Foreign Ministry pointed out in a note on Tuesday (Apr. 13).

Thus far, Brazil has received more than 1 million doses of AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine through Covac Facility—the international alliance of the World Health Organization (WHO) aiming to speed up the development and manufacture of vaccines against COVID-19 and ensure egalitarian access to immunization. Under Brazil’s admission contract, signed on September 25, 2020, the country will gain access to 42.5 million vaccine doses—enough to vaccinate ten percent of the Brazilian population.

According to the statement by the consortium, 330 million doses of the vaccines Pfizer/BioNTech and AstraZeneca/Oxford should be sent in the first half of 2020 to 145 countries in the alliance, which combines over 150 nations.