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Russia and Brazil spat erupts over Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine snub
The Russian Sputnik V vaccine has been approved for use in at least 60 countries, including more than 10 in Latin and Central America. (Photo: AFP/Jorge Bernal)
30 Apr 2021 05:15AM (Updated:
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BRASILIA: Brazil s health regulator said on Thursday (Apr 29) its decision to reject the Russian-made Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine was based on the developer s own data, after the latter threatened to sue for defamation.
Brazilian regulators decision on Monday to deny emergency use authorisation for the vaccine has blown up into an all-out international row, with Sputnik V s makers accusing them of knowingly spreading false and inaccurate information without testing the vaccine themselves.
Published April 30, 2021, 9:20 AM
Brazil’s health regulator said Thursday its decision to reject the Russian-made Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine was based on the developer’s own data, after the latter threatened to sue for defamation.
Brazilian regulators’ decision Monday to deny emergency use authorization for the vaccine has blown up into an all-out international row, with Sputnik V’s makers accusing them of “knowingly spreading false and inaccurate information” without testing the vaccine themselves.
Picture of vials of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine
(Photo by Jorge BERNAL / AFP / MANILA BULLETIN)
The Brazilian agency, Anvisa, based the decision on evidence the vaccine carried a live version of adenovirus, a common cold-causing virus.
Thursday, 29 Apr 2021 11:44 PM MYT
In this file photo taken on April 15, 2021 a health worker shows vials of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine against Covid-19, at a vaccination centre at the Tecnopolis park in Villa Martelli, Buenos Aires province, Argentina. AFP pic
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MOSCOW, April 29 The developer of Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine said today it would sue Brazil’s health regulator Anvisa after it refused to import the jab.
“Sputnik V is undertaking a legal defamation proceeding in Brazil against Anvisa for knowingly spreading false and inaccurate information,” the developer said on the official Sputnik V Twitter account.
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