Brazil begins Covid inoculation

RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil would begin mass vaccination against the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) starting Wednesday (Thursday in Manila), its health ministry announced.

Dulcinea da Silva Lopes (R), a 59-year-old mediacal worker, receives a dose of China's COVID-19 vaccine in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Jan. 18, 2021. (Brazilian National News Agency/Handout via Xinhua)