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Vials with a sticker reading, COVID-19 / Coronavirus vaccine / Injection only and a medical syringe are seen in front of a displayed Johnson & Johnson logo in this illustration taken October 31, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/File Photo
Mexico s health regulator has granted emergency use authorization to Johnson & Johnson s (JNJ.N) COVID-19 vaccine, Deputy Health Minister Hugo Lopez-Gatell said on Thursday.
Even so, Lopez-Gatell said there was no immediate plan to acquire the vaccine for Mexico. We have a decent supply with the other five vaccines, he said during his regular evening news conference.
Lopez-Gatell estimated that as many as 2 million Mexicans might travel to the United States to get inoculated but stressed that there were no formal assessments. read more
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The Russian health ministry s ethical committee has declined to approve clinical trials in Russia combining a British shot from AstraZeneca (AZN.L) and Oxford University with Russia s Sputnik V vaccine, an AstraZeneca official told Reuters on Friday.
Irina Panarina, AstraZeneca general director in Russia and Eurasia, said the decision did not mean that the trials would never be approved or were definitively prohibited.
Before the committee s decision she said that AstraZeneca had received questions about the trials from the health ministry and was now preparing a response to them, which would be sent next week.
Human trials of a COVID-19 vaccine combining a shot from AstraZeneca (AZN.L) and Britain s Oxford University with Russia s Sputnik V vaccine were approved in Azerbaijan, the United Arab Emirates and Belarus, said Panarina.
Brazil's Butantan institute could supply at least 40 million doses of its own COVID-19 vaccine called Butanvac in the fourth quarter of 2021, said Director Dimas Covas on Thursday.
A traveler arriving in Brazil has been diagnosed with the coronavirus variant first discovered in India, Sao Paulo health officials said on Wednesday, adding concerns that the more contagious version of the virus will fuel one of the world's deadliest outbreaks.
Healthcare & PharmaceuticalsBrazil seeking to import 20 mln doses of India s Covaxin vaccine- agency
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Indian Health Minister Harsh Vardhan holds a dose of Bharat Biotech s COVID-19 vaccine called COVAXIN, during a vaccination campaign at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) hospital in New Delhi, India, January 16, 2021. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi//File Photo/File Photo
Brazil s health ministry has applied for authorization to import 20 million doses of the Covaxin/BBV152 COVID-19 vaccine, manufactured in India, where the vaccine is authorized for emergency use, health agency Anvisa said on Tuesday.
The ministry had filed a previous request that was denied by the agency.