The developers of the Russian vaccine against the coronavirus have condemned the actions of the American authorities and stressed that nations should be fighting as a united front against the pandemic.

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has admitted in its annual report that it used “diplomatic relations” in order to force Brazil, one of the worst-hit countries in terms of the pandemic, to reject authorisation of the Russian coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V.

The American authorities put their actions down to the need to “mitigate efforts” by Russia to boost its “influence” in the region, which, as the department’s paper argues, would be detrimental to the “US’ safety and security”. The report did not elaborate on how Brazil’s approval of an additional vaccine to fight the pandemic would undermine US security.

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