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BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazil\u2019s health minister said on Wednesday he had spoken with Moderna about buying its COVID-19 vaccine, as the country scrambles for shots from producers passed over last year.<\/p>

FILE PHOTO: An employee works on the production line of CanSino Biologics Inc’s single-dose vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Tianjin, China April 25, 2021. Picture taken April 25, 2021. China Daily via REUTERS .<\/figcaption>

Separately, the health regulator Anvisa said it had received an emergency use request late on Tuesday from Belcher Farmaceutica, the Brazilian representative of China\u2019s CanSino Biologics, and it would take up to seven days to make a decision, if the papers are in order.<\/p>\n

Brazil is still suffering a long, deadly second wave of coronavirus infections and has struggled to implement an effective nationwide vaccination program. Less than 10% of the population has been fully immunized against the virus.<\/p>\n

\u201cI spoke with representatives of Moderna today, and indicated that the Health Ministry and Brazilian government would like to enter into partnership with the manufacturer for the supply of vaccines with a high capacity to respond to COVID-19 variants,\u201d Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga wrote in a tweet.<\/p>\n

In early March, before Queiroga became minister, the ministry said it was \u201cpractically in the final stage of negotiations\u201d with Moderna for the purchase of vaccines.<\/p>\n

The ministry announced talks with Moderna in July 2020.<\/p>\n

In February, Eduardo Pazuello, then health minister, criticized the price of Moderna\u2019s vaccine.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe destiny of our country is to be vaccine makers. We will make vaccines for Brazil and Latin America,\u201d Pazuello said at the time. \u201cWe can\u2019t count on labs that simply sell us vaccines.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brazil is currently using locally finished vaccines produced by AstraZeneca and China\u2019s Sinovac, as well as imported doses of the shot from Pfizer\/BioNTech.<\/p>\n

\u201cChina is committed to continue and expand its vaccine partnership with Brazil,\u201d China\u2019s ambassador to Brazil, Yang Wanming, tweeted on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Five of every six COVID-19 shots administered in Brazil through April came from a partnership between Sinovac and Sao Paulo\u2019s Butantan biomedical institute, but production has sputtered due to delayed shipments from China.<\/p>\n

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