Its move comes after the country refused to import the jab due to 'uncertainties'. FMTNews SputnikV Vaccines
MOSCOW: The developer of Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine said Thursday it would sue Brazil’s health regulator Anvisa after it refused to import the jab.
Anvisa announced Monday that it had denied a request from several states to import Sputnik V, saying its experts had flagged “uncertainties” about the jab.But according to a slideshow uploaded online, the regulator’s scientists made the decision on the basis that vaccine batches they tested carried a live version of a common cold-causing virus.
“Anvisa made incorrect and misleading statements without having tested the actual Sputnik V vaccine,” the developers said.a virus that normally causes mild respiratory illness but in vaccines is genetically modified so that it cannot replicate, and edited to carry the DNA instructions for human cells to develop the spike protein of the coronavirus.The Sputnik V vaccine uses two different adenovirus vectors to accomplish this task, administered in two shots.
The Russian vaccine has been approved for use in at least 60 countries, including more than 10 in Latin and Central America.