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Article content BRASILIA — The Brazilian pharmaceutical company that plans to produce Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine will start making it next week even before health regulator Anvisa gives approval for use in Brazil, the company’s chief executive said on Friday. União Quimica’s facility in São Paulo has been certified by Anvisa for good production practices and the vaccine will be made for export to countries that have approved it, said CEO and founder Fernando Marques. We ap...

RIO DE JANEIRO, May 7. /TASS/. Uniao Quimica will start producing the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine in Brazil before the national regulator (Anvisa) gives its approval, CEO of the Brazilian pharmaceutical company Fernando Marques said on Friday. "We will get a batch of the active component from Moscow next week and will start bottling the vaccine at the plant in Guarulhos," he said. "We will start production immediately after receiving components and will await registration enabling us to start...

Brazilian official lashes at watchdog for its decision on Sputnik V According to Vilas-Boas, the watchdog’s refusal to authorize imports of the Russian vaccine is unjustified RIO DE JANIERO, April 28. /TASS/. The Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency (Anvisa), which refused to authorize imports of Russia’s Sputnik V anti-coronavirus vaccine, has completely ignored the real epidemiological situation in the country, the chief healthcare official of Brazil’s state of Bahia, Fabio Vilas-Boas,...

Brazil’s regulator not allowing Sputnik V’s import due to political reasons - developers The delay by Anvisa to issue permission for the import and use of the Sputnik V vaccine has nothing to do with access to data on the vaccine or science, the vaccine’s Twitter account said MOSCOW, April 27. /TASS/. Developers of Russia’s Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine believe that the refusal of the Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency (Anvisa) to allow its import is politically motivated, the vac...

Brazil’s scientists recognize Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine as safe According to Brazil’s legislation, the approval by the committee for biological safety is necessary for all drugs manufactured with the use of GMO technologies © Anton Novoderezhkin/TASS RIO DE JANEIRO, April 27. /TASS/. Members of a scientific and technical committee for biological safety at Brazil’s Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI) have recognized Russia’s Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine as ...

Brazilian watchdog requests court to extend Sputnik V review period Earlier, the court authorized importing Sputnik V to Brazil without the national pharmaceutical regulators approval, if the governmental agency fails to make any decision regarding its use by the end of April RIO DE JANEIRO, April 21. /TASS/. Brazil’s National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) requested the country’s Federal Supreme Court to give it more time for considering a registration request for Russia’s Sputnik V...

Lack of sufficient information about the vaccine’s quality, effectiveness and safety makes it impossible for Anvisa to authorize the use of the vaccine While Argentina has already started trials to produce the Russian Sputnik V vaccine against covid-19, Brazil’s National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) has filed a petition before the Federal Supreme Court (STF) for additional time to evaluate a registration request for the very same immunization shot. According to G...

Anvisa will be among the first foreign regulatory agencies to visit the Sputnik V manufacturing plant. Brazils National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) will be sending a delegation to Russia next week to conduct an onsite review of the facilities where the Sputnik V vaccine is manufactured, it was announced Friday. “Two facilities will be inspected. First, between April 15 and 21, three Anvisa staffers will visit a factory producing the vaccine’s active component and ...

Brazilian watchdog’s delegation to visit Sputnik V production in Russia — chief The Anvisa chief added that the watchdog will soon meet with Russian Ambassador to Brazil Alexei Labetsky to discuss this matter RIO DE JANEIRO, April 7. /TASS/. A delegation of Brazil’s National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) will pay a visit to Russia to inspect the Sputnik V production facility, the organization’s head, Antonio Barra Torres, said on Tuesday. "In the course of the conversation b...

Fernando Marques The web of waterways draining out of tropical regions of South America is home to dozens of species of freshwater stingrays. The fish evolved from seagoing ancestors, but exactly how they got inland has always been unclear. Now it seems they were carried by the Caribbean Sea reaching deep into the continent millions of years ago. Central and South America are home to about 20 per cent of the world’s total fish species, says João Pedro Fontenelle at the University of Toronto ...