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2021-03-13T12:00:02+00:00
Regional News • Americas • Brazil
Brazil signs contract to receive 10 million doses of Sputnik V vaccine
Brazil signs contract to receive 10 million doses of Sputnik V vaccine
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The Brazilian Ministry of Health signed on Friday a contract to receive 10 million doses of the Sputnik V vaccine, developed by Russia's Gamaleya Institute.

According to a federal law sanctioned at the beginning of the pandemic last year, Anvisa has 72 hours to decide whether or not to validate the registration of a Covid-19 vaccine granted by one of the national health agencies of the United States, the European Union, Japan and China - Sputnik was approved in Russia and also in Argentina.