Brazilian official lashes at watchdog for its decision on Sputnik V
According to Vilas-Boas, the watchdogâs 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, said on Tuesday. In our joint opinion with [local pharmaceutical company] BahiaPharma, Anvisa will require no less than six months to have all questions answered. The demands that it had voiced are absolutely detached from reality, he said in an interview with Globo TV.