Sputnik V: a Brazilian laboratory will produce eight …

From January 15, the Sputnik V vaccine against the coronavirus will be manufactured in Brazil. This was confirmed by the director of the Brazilian pharmaceutical company Chemical union, Rogério Rosso, ensuring that they provide for the production of eight million doses.

According to Rosso’s comment on the CNN Brasil portal, all doses produced in Brazil of the vaccine created by the National Center of Gamaleya will be exported to various countries in Latin America, including Argentina.. To validate the manufacturing process, a delegation from the Chemical Union will disembark in Moscow on Monday to meet with the Russian Fund for Direct Investments, which has funded the research and production of Sputnik V.

Meanwhile, the Brazilian laboratory is awaiting authorization from Anvisa (Brazilian National Agency for Health Surveillance) to begin phase 3 testing, a step that allows the vaccine to be applied to the population to assess its effectiveness and effects. possible secondary.

New batch of vaccines from Russia

And while the production of Sputnik in Brazil is resolved, the national government has confirmed that a second series of doses of the vaccine will arrive in Argentina in the middle of the month, while the vaccination operation continues, with at least 70 thousand people already vaccinated.

As with the first series of vaccines, an Aerolineas Argentinas plane will depart for Russia possibly during the next week to “seek additional doses of the first application” of the Sputnik V vaccine, as confirmed by the Ministry of Health. The government assumes that the flight will leave for Moscow on Thursday, January 14 at 8:35 a.m. and return on the 15th at midnight with the cargo.

“We have purchased a total of 20 million of this vaccine, so the transfer of vaccines to Argentina will start to be almost non-stop,” said Ginés González García.