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Senators want health regulators to explain suspension of vaccine trials

Two Brazilian senators made a request for Congress to summon Antônio Barra Torres, head of the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) and Dimas Covas, director of the Butantan Biological Institute, to explain the suspension of clinical trials of the Chinese-made CoronaVac coronavirus vaccine.

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