"The deliveries have already started, now there are concrete examples," RIA Novosti quotes Bogdanov.

The deputy minister did not specify which countries were being discussed.

He also said that the interest in the Russian vaccine is huge and there are a lot of requests for its supply. 

Bogdanov added that the Russian side would like to see all the appeals “received from African friends” be satisfied. 

Earlier, the representative office of the World Health Organization in Africa reported that the number of victims of COVID-19 on the continent exceeded 50 thousand.