"The first batch of the Sputnik V vaccine (Gam-Covid-Vac), developed by the Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology.
Gamaleya of the Ministry of Health of Russia has been sent to the regions, ”RIA Novosti reports.
The department reported that "within the framework of the pilot delivery, the logistics chains for delivering the vaccine to the constituent entities of Russia, the distribution and organization of vaccination against COVID-19 of citizens from the high-risk group will be worked out."
Earlier, the director of the Gamaleya Center, Alexander Gintsburg, said that the second batch of Sputnik V vaccine for civilian use was already being produced in the center of Gamaleya.
Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov, Alexei Agranovsky, in an interview with FAN, commented on the development of a vaccine against COVID-19 by Russian scientists.