Sofia Menchu
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GUATEMALA CITY, June 30 (Reuters) - Guatemalan Health Minister Amelia Flores clarified on Wednesday she was not yet requesting a refund from Russia after delayed deliveries of the Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19 and that both countries were still negotiating.
Flores had said a day earlier that the country was requesting a refund after paying some $80 million in April for 8 million doses of the vaccine. It has received just 150,000 of them. read more
"There is a letter seeking the re-negotiation of the contract, but that does not imply the return of the money," Flores told reporters on Wednesday. "The first proposal is to re-negotiate the contract."