The Consulate General of the People's Republic of China has denied the announcement that the WEF will announce the mutual recognition of vaccines

“Recently, some Russian media reported that Chinese Consul General in Vladivostok Yan Wenbin told the media that China and Russia will announce mutual recognition of two vaccines: the Chinese vaccine CoronaVac and the Russian vaccine Sputnik V during the Eastern Economic Forum in September this year, "the website of the PRC Consulate General in Vladivostok says.

The department stressed that this information is not true.

“And at present the Consulate General does not have any information on this matter,” the diplomatic mission said.

Earlier, the head of the EU diplomatic service, Josep Borrell, said that Russia and China, in the context of the spread of COVID-19, allegedly promote "vaccine diplomacy", and called on the EU to respond to this.

The EU ambassador to Russia has also spoken out against the politicization of vaccine recognition.

In early June, Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), spoke on the sidelines of the SPIEF about testing a combination of the Russian Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine with Chinese drugs for COVID-19.