“We are entering into contracts with vaccine manufacturers, deliveries are expected to begin in January;
in January next year, we will begin mass vaccination, "- quoted by his publication Folha de Sao Paulo.
One of the possible vaccines is called the laboratory drug AstraZeneca.
Earlier, the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) Kirill Dmitriev said that clinical trials of the Sputnik V vaccine from Russia would begin in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, the Philippines, India and Brazil in September.
In August, RDIF and the Brazilian state of Parana agreed to manufacture and promote a Russian vaccine against coronavirus infection.
Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov, Alexey Agranovsky, in an interview with the FAN, commented on the development of a vaccine against COVID-19 by Russian scientists.