"An agreement of understanding has been signed between the Russian Direct Investment Fund and SK-Pharmacia on the allocation of a guaranteed volume of the Sputnik V vaccine," the statement on the website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan says.

It is noted that the guaranteed volume of vaccine will be allocated after testing.

It is also reported that the National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology named after N.F. Gamaleya is ready to produce the necessary amount of vaccine for Kazakhstan.

Earlier it became known that the civil circulation of the vaccine against coronavirus infection may begin on September 15-20.

In early August, TV presenter Alexander Myasnikov, the head physician of Moscow Hospital No. 71, assessed the situation with the COVID-19 vaccine for children in an interview with NSN.