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Brazil suspends syringe purchase effort as vaccination lags

by Diane Jeantet
| January 6, 2021 12:30 PM

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro said Wednesday his administration is suspending an effort to buy hundreds of millions of syringes just as the country is preparing to launch a nationwide vaccination campaign against COVID-19.

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