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Venezuela gets 200,000 doses of Sputnik V’s 2nd component

Published Sept. 20, 2021 at 7:42 pm

This handout picture released by Venezuelan Presidency shows Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro delivering a speech to National Constituent Assembly (ANC) members at the Federal Legislative Palace in Caracas on Dec. 18, 2020, amid the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.

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Venezuela has received 200,000 doses of the second component of the Russian-designed two-shot Sputnik V vaccine for coronavirus, the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) said.

“200,000 doses of Sputnik V second component arrived in Venezuela today for the country’s vaccination program,” RDIF, the vaccine manufacturer, said on Twitter on September 20.

Venezuela authorized the Russian-designed vaccine for use in January of this year.