“The coronavirus has affected the whole world. Sudan is interested in developing relations with Russia, especially in the field of military medicine. We will, of course, develop this area, and we are very interested in this vaccine. We hope that we will see it at home too, ”RIA Novosti quotes him.

Earlier, Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said that his country is interested in getting the Russian vaccine against COVID-19 “as soon as possible”.

Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), said that 20 countries had sent Russia requests for a total of 1 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine. 

On August 11, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the registration in Russia of the world's first COVID-19 vaccine, dubbed Sputnik V.

Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov, Alexey Agranovsky, in an interview with the FAN, commented on the development of a vaccine against COVID-19 by Russian scientists.