Brazil allowed the use and import into the country of the Russian "Sputnik V"

The collegiate council of the Brazilian National Sanitary Inspection Agency Anvisa approved the import and emergency use of the Russian Sputnik V CORONAVIRUS vaccine. This is stated in Twitter drug.

Sputnik V will be used in Brazil after Anvisa approval.

The HEAD of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), Kirill Dmitriev, specified that the first batches of the vaccine would arrive in Brazil in July. Brazil became the 67th country in the world to endorse Sputnik V.

According to REUTERS, the regulator's board voted to approve the Russian drug by four votes to one. The discussions lasted over seven hours. The vaccine was allowed to be used under certain conditions. In particular, only healthy adults should be vaccinated.