"As part of the strategic trade alliance reached in 2019 between Russia and Venezuela at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum, a cargo with 850 thousand ampoules of four types of insulin arrived on Friday in a South American country," RIA Novosti reported.

It is specified that the alliance aims to achieve cooperation in the field of supply, registration, distribution and quality control of technology transfer. 

Earlier, the head of the Mexican Foreign Ministry Marcelo Ebrard said that Russia would supply Mexico with up to 2 thousand doses of vaccine against coronavirus infection for independent conducting of the third stage of clinical trials.