This is reported by TASS with reference to the Assistant Minister of Health of Russia Alexei Kuznetsov.

“The first participant in clinical trials of the Sputnik V vaccine, developed by the Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology named after V.I.

Gamalei of the Russian Ministry of Health, ”he said.

Earlier, the Ministry of Health of Belarus reported that more than 4 thousand Belarusians expressed a desire to become volunteers in a test of a vaccine against coronavirus.