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Brazil Reaches Deal to Produce Oxford Covid-19 Vaccine

  • Deal includes transfer of technology for local production
  • Brazil will spend $287 million on as many as 100 million doses

Commuters wearing protective masks walk inside the Luz train station in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on June 22.

Photographer: Jonne Roriz/Bloomberg
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Brazil, the nation with the second-highest number of coronavirus cases and deaths, reached a deal with the U.K. to produce the Covid-19 vaccine that’s been developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca Plc.