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The Russian Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine,

The Russian Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine, during a vaccination campain at the State Hospital in Cailungo, San Marino, on March 29, 2021.

| Andreas Solaro | AFP

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Ghosts of Covid millionaires in Russian vaccine import

By  Paul Wafula  &  Angela Oketch

On Sunday March 21, 2021—exactly a year and a week after the first Covid-19 case was reported in Nairobi—a consignment of 75,000 doses of Russian-made Sputnik V vaccine arrived at Mombasa port.  

The importer, Dinlas Pharma EPZ Ltd, is a firm based in Syokimau on Mombasa Road.

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