Brazilian Company Asks Health Watchdog To Authorize Emergency Use Of Sputnik V - Reports
Faizan Hashmi Published January 16, 2021 | 07:50 AM
BUENOS AIRES (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 16th January, 2021) The Brazilian pharmaceutical company Uniao Quimica has asked the national Health Regulatory Agency (Anvisa) to allow the emergency use of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine against the coronavirus, media reported.
If such a permit is issued, Brazil may get 10 million doses of the Russian vaccine, the G1 news outlet reported on late Friday.
The World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on March 11. To date, more than 93.7 million people have been infected with the coronavirus worldwide, with over 2 million fatalities, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Brazil comes third in terms of the number of confirmed cases - about 8.4 million - after the United States and India, as well as second in terms of the deceased patients - over 208,000 - following the United States.
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