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In an interview with TF1 on Sunday evening, Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton said: “We don’t need Sputnik V at all.”
He added that “the Russians are having a hard time doing it, so we will probably have to help them.”
“If you need to provide them with one or two factories [vakcinoms] “Why not, but the priority now is for the Europeans,” he said.
The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RTIF), which finances the Sputnik program, has accused Breton of “obvious bias” on the vaccine because he is Russian.
“Commissioner Breton, stop being biased. Europeans want a safe and effective choice of vaccines that until now they have not been able to provide,” RTIF posted on Twitter.
The Foundation noted that Sputnik V is approved in 54 countries.
This month, the Amsterdam-based European Medicines Agency (EMA) launched a follow-up review of Sputnik V, an important step in the approval of the first non-Western product to be used in the 27-nation bloc.
According to RTIF, if Thretton’s comments are “an official EU position, please let us know that there is no point seeking EVA approval due to its political bias.”
“We will continue to save lives in other countries,” the foundation said.
Sputnik V was registered in August last year, without the start of large-scale clinical trials, and many experts questioned the reliability of the drug.
However, the authoritative medical journal The Lancet later published research showing that the vaccine is safe and its efficacy exceeds 90 percent.
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