“Venezuela became the first country in Latin America to take part in foreign clinical trials of the Sputnik V vaccine,” Dmitriev said.
It is emphasized that similar clinical trials of the Sputnik V vaccine are currently being carried out in Belarus and are planned in a number of other countries, including Brazil, India, and the United Arab Emirates.
Vaccination of volunteers in Venezuela will begin in the coming days, two thousand people will take part in the study.
Earlier, Venezuela's Executive Vice President Delsi Rodriguez said that the country had received the first batch of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19 coronavirus infection.