https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/04/29/russia-brazil-spat-erupts-over-sputnik-vaccine-snub-a73785
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Brazilian regulators' decision Monday to deny emergency use authorization for the vaccine has blown up into an all-out international row, with Sputnik V's makers accusing them of "knowingly spreading false and inaccurate information" without testing the vaccine themselves.
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It fired back defensively in a press conference that it had drawn that conclusion from information "submitted by the Sputnik V vaccine developer itself."
"Anvisa was accused of lying, of acting unethically, of disseminating fake news about replicating adenovirus," said the agency's director, Antonio Barra Torres.
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"Anvisa made incorrect and misleading statements without having tested the actual Sputnik V vaccine."
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The Russian vaccine has been approved for use in at least 60 countries, including more than 10 in Latin America.
But it has not yet been approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) or the United States' Food and Drug Administration (FDA).