Bangladesh, Sept. 9 -- Brazil's acting Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello said the country will launch a mass vaccination drive against the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) in January next.

"We are signing contracts with those who manufacture the vaccine and the expectation is that the vaccine will reach us starting in January. In January of the next year, we will begin to vaccinate everybody," acting Minister of Health Eduardo Pazuello said during a cabinet meeting, reports Xinhua.

Brazil's government signed an agreement with the state-run Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), which is working with the University of Oxford to produce a vaccine.

The plan is to initially receive 100.4 million doses of the vaccine, which would serve to immunize h...