“Three companies that develop vaccines in Russia use fundamentally different technological platforms, taking into account the accumulated experience, which was formed by high-class data - teams for the development of vaccines against other infectious diseases,” RIA Novosti Maksyutov quotes.

He stated that "all of these vaccines are used at different manufacturing sites with little or no competition in this way."

Earlier, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a decree on the inclusion of vaccines against coronavirus in the list of vital drugs.

Mishustin also said that vaccination against coronavirus infection will be voluntary, no one will force anyone.

Inna Dolzhikova, the head of the laboratory of the state collection of viruses at the Gamaleya Center, told URA.RU about the Sputnik V vaccine.