Vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine are pictured in a vaccination centre in Geneva, Switzerland, February 3, 2021. REUTERS/Denis Balibousefor another 100 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine, of which 35 million shots are due to be delivered in October, Brazil's Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga said on Monday.
, because it was running out of shots. The second dose will only be applied every other day until more supplies arrive from the finishing facility at the Butantan biomedical center in Sao Paulo. So far, Butantan has delivered 42 million doses of CoronaVac to the national immunization program, compared to 26.5 million doses of the AstraZeneca PLCBrazil's Health Ministry received its first 1 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine last week.