“We believe that already in December we will be able to start deliveries to Latin America,” Dmitriev was quoted as saying by TASS.

He also announced plans "soon" to announce an agreement with Argentina and Peru.

“We will soon announce an agreement with Argentina, an agreement with Peru, in addition to the agreements that we already have with Mexico and Brazil, and with a number of other countries,” Dmitriev said.

Earlier, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced the start of trials in the republic of the Russian vaccine against COVID-19 Sputnik V.