Brazil begins trial of Chinese made coronavirus vaccine

Brazilian city of Niterói in Rio de Janeiro state has begun testing a coronavirus vaccine produced by Chinese pharmaceutical company Sivac.

trial is being conducted by a partnership between city government, Butantan Institute and Oswaldo Cruz Foundation.

Some 800 of city's healthcare workers have alrey applied to participate in study as volunteers to receive vaccine.

Five or Brazilian states are participating in Sivac tests, with 9,000 volunteers in total.

Rafael Bastos, an anessiologist who volunteered to receive vaccine, is confident trial will be a success.

"It can solve our public health problem, t only in Brazil but in world," Bastos said Tuesday.

According to Johns Hopkins University tally, Brazil has reported more than 3.9 million coronavirus cases and 121,381 deaths, making it second worst-hit country in world after United States.