Leaders in combating covid, first to receive vaccine from Oxford in Brazil

epa08961344 The epidemiologist and pulmonologist Margareth Dalcomo recieves the vaccine from the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca against covid-19, at the headquarters of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), the largest health research center in Latin America, which will be responsible for the production of the vaccine in Brazilian territory, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 23 January 2021. Two epidemiologists who have led the fight against COVID-19 in Brazil were the first to be immunized in the country, in a symbolic act in Rio de Janeiro, with the vaccine jointly developed by the University of Oxford and the Anglo-Swedish laboratory AstraZeneca. EPA/FABIO MOTTA
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