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Anvisa (National Health Surveillance Agency) and the Federal Police are investigating the alleged sale of a fake vaccine against covid-19 in the popular business of Madureira, in Rio de Janeiro.
In recent days, publications and photos on social networks of an alleged vaccine sold by street vendors for R $ 50 in the Rio de Janeiro neighborhood went viral.
Wanted by TwitterAnvisa confirmed the investigation, but said that, at the moment, it could not share more information about the procedure. The FP reported that it does not release information on investigations or investigations in progress.
Any commercialization or application of a vaccine, outside the investigation, of covid-19 in Brazil today is an irregular activity and originated by falsification, since there are still no authorized vaccines in Brazil.
Anvisa, in note
The photos posted on the networks show a box of the Chinese vaccine candidate BBIBP-CorV, under development by the Beijing Institute of Biological Products, a subsidiary of the China National Biotechnology Group (CNBG), which belongs to the pharmaceutical company Sinopharm. .
The vaccine has no connection to CoronaVac, an immunizer produced by the Butantan Institute, in São Paulo, in association with the Sinovac laboratory.
According to Anvisa, the Sinopharm vaccine does not have research in Brazil and, therefore, it was not imported into the country.
“The vaccines that were imported are with the research institutions and only volunteers selected for research could be vaccinated,” the agency said.
(* With information from Estadão Content)
