“In the near future, the leadership of the Republic of Moldova will send a request to Moscow,” Dodon wrote on his Facebook.

He added that he congratulated the Russian partners on this important achievement of medical science.

On August 11, the head of RDIF, Kirill Dmitriev, said that 20 countries had sent requests to Russia for a total of 1 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine.

Virologist Anatoly Altstein, in an interview with Newinform, commented on the registration of the first Russian vaccine against coronavirus infection.