RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept. 8 (Xinhua) -- Brazil will launch a mass vaccination drive against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in January, the government said on Tuesday.
"We are signing contracts with those who manufacture the vaccine and the expectation is that the vaccine will reach us starting in January. In January of next year we will begin to vaccinate everybody," the acting Minister of Health Eduardo Pazuello said during a cabinet meeting.
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