Medicines and Medical Devices Agency

Turkey's official Medicines and Medical Devices Agency said on April 30 that Turkey has granted emergency use authorization to Russia's Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine.

"Emergency use of Sputnik V vaccine was approved following the assessments and evaluations by our Turkish Medicines and Medical Devices Agency," Fahrettin Koca said on Twitter.

Those tests, as she explained, did not receive approval from Medicines and Medical Devices Agency of Serbia. "It was discussed at the Crisis Staff and the Ministry of Health checked, those tests were not approved by the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency", Brnabi said on the show "Hit Tweet".