“WHO has confirmed that the approval process for Sputnik V is ongoing and is entering its final stages.

A group of WHO inspectors is due to visit Russia soon to collect all the necessary data on the vaccine, ”the vaccine's Twitter account says.

Earlier, the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) expressed confidence that the World Health Organization (WHO) would approve the Russian Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine.

Director of the Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology named after N.F.

Gamalei Alexander Gintsburg in an interview with NSN told how collective immunity is formed.