Venezuela receives new shipment of Sputnik V vaccine doses, antiviral tablets 1 minute read
Caracas, Apr 15 (EFE).- Venezuela has received a new shipment of Sputnik V vaccine doses and antiviral tablets that entered the country Thursday morning on an Azur Air flight from Moscow, Health Minister Carlos Alvarado said.
“We’re completing the second dose for health care personnel and older adults,” he told state-run Venezolana de Television after the arrival of the new shipment of 50,000 vaccine doses and 1 million tablets of favipiravir, an antiviral drug re-purposed to treat Covid-19.
Alvarado said this fourth shipment of Sputnik V, a vaccine developed by Russia’s Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, brings the total received to 300,000 doses and will allow Venezuela to start inoculating firefighters and emergency management personnel.
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