Brazil and Russia face off over vaccine contamination payment

Summary

A global strive in opposition to broke out final week when Brazilian regulators vetoed the import of the Russian COVID-19 vaccine, Sputnik V, alleging its 2nd dose contains adenoviruses in a position to replication—a capacity anxiety to vaccine recipients. The vaccine’s maker soon announced on Twitter that it would perchance perchance sue in Brazil for defamation. In response, officials of the Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency held a press conference exhibiting documentation that they stated supported their claim of vaccine contamination. The furor comes as Brazil, which has one in every of the very finest burdens of COVID-19 globally, has vaccinated simplest about 15% of its of us and inform governors there must import 30 million Sputnik V doses.