BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday claimed the suspension of a clinical trial for China’s Sinovac coronavirus vaccine as “another victory” for him personally, he said in a post on his Facebook page.
Brazil’s health regulator Anvisa on Monday suspended the Sinovac trials, which Bolsonaro had dismissed as lacking credibility, citing a severe adverse event. Trial organizers expressed surprise, countering that there had been a death but it was unrelated to the vaccine.
(Reporting by Lisandra Paraguassu; Writing by Jamie McGeever, Editing by Louise Heavens)
