The government authorities of the questioned president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, announced on Monday the arrival of a batch of 50,000 thousand doses of the vaccine against the Sputnik-V coronavirus.
During the announcement of the landing, Vice President Delcy Rodríguez said that “the second Russian vaccine, EpiVacCorona, a very good vaccine, arrives in Venezuela, it is going to be authorized, we are going to carry out studies and we are immediately in contact for the supply,” he added.
Rodríguez said that the new Russian vaccine proposal has small fragments of the virus and that allows to stimulate the immune system, he said.
The latest official statistical cut records that Venezuela accumulates 157,943 cases and 1,577 deaths linked to covid-19.