RIA Novosti informs about this with reference to the press service of the department.
The ministry noted that it has signed an agreement on the purchase of the vaccine with the Covax Facility.
“It is planned to purchase about 600 thousand doses of the vaccine for nearly 300 thousand people at risk (two doses each),” the Ministry of Health said.
It is noted that the total cost of the vaccine batch is about $ 6.33 million.
At the same time, the country in which it is planned to purchase the vaccine is not named.
Earlier, the head of the Russian Ministry of Health Mikhail Murashko spoke about the progress of tests of the Russian vaccine against coronavirus infection "Sputnik V".