"It is difficult enough to name the exact day, but progress is going very quickly, and we expect that within the next seven to ten days a final decision will be made," TASS quotes her.

According to the agency, earlier Sharma stated that the first Canadian certificate would most likely receive a drug from the American company Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech.

Earlier, the UK authorities approved the use in the country of a coronavirus vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech.