BRASILIA, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) -- The Janssen-Cilag company, the pharmaceutical division of U.S. multinational Johnson & Johnson, temporarily suspended clinical trials in Brazil of a vaccine against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), the national health regulatory body Brazilian Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) said on Tuesday.
Janssen-Cilag notified Anvisa that testing to determine the safety and efficacy of its vaccine VAC31518COV3001 "was temporarily suspended due to a serious adverse occurrence in a volunteer abroad."
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