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Russia's corona vaccine Sputnik V is unlikely to receive rapid approval from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) from the perspective of the Russian state direct investment fund RDIF.

"If approval comes - probably after June - we could deliver around 100 million doses to 50 million people in the EU within three or four months," said RDIF boss Kirill Dmitrijew in an interview with the "Berliner Zeitung".

Russia expects that after Hungary, other EU states could directly allow Sputnik V - regardless of the EMA decision.

"We could send vaccines to these countries in April," said Dmitriev.

"We are now expecting an EMA delegation in mid-April, and we hope that the decision on Sputnik V will be a purely scientific one and not a political one." put.

The head of the fund, which is responsible for the international distribution of Sputnik V, confirmed the newspaper's plans for the production of the preparation in Germany and other EU countries.

There are negotiations about the production of the vaccine in the facilities of the Russian pharmaceutical company R-Pharm in Illertissen, Bavaria.

Medicines for 150 countries around the world are produced there.

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Meanwhile, the tourism experts of the seven East Frisian Islands are demanding a concept from the state of Lower Saxony that enables the local vacation areas to be opened up.

The managing director of Staatsbad Norderney GmbH, Wilhelm Loth, said at a press conference on Friday that it could not be that holiday fliers were allowed to the Balearic Islands, but that people could not come to the domestic islands.

The surprising decision from Berlin to allow foreign travel caused a lot of resentment on the islands.

The tourism experts received approval from Lower Saxony's Minister of Economics, Bernd Althusmann (CDU).

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