BRASILIA, June 15 ― Brazil's health regulator Anvisa has extended the validity of the single-shot Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine, prolonging its shelf life from 3 months to 4.5 months, giving the country more time to use a first batch due to arrive this week.
Brazil signed an agreement with the J&J-owned Belgian laboratory Janssen to receive 38 million doses for delivery in the last quarter of this year, so the first batch is arriving earlier than originally planned, he told a Senate commission of inquiry last week. Brazil has been hit by the second-deadliest Covid-19 outbreak outside of the United States and is behind most countries in vaccinating its population of 210 million.
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