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Chile’s Institute of Public Health has approved the Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use, the institute said in a statement.

The country has already rolled out the Pfizer, Sinovac and AstraZeneca vaccines, with more than 13 million of its 19 million people having received at least one dose of one of the jabs, according to Reuters.

“We have approved the Sputnik-V vaccine to be used in Chile,” institute President Heriberto Garcia said in the statement. The committee evaluated data from Chile as well as Mexico and Argentina, where the Russian vaccine is also applied, he said.

Garcia said no major adverse…