"RDIF announces the approval of the use of the Russian single-component vaccine against coronavirus Sputnik Light as a universal boosting injection for all vaccines in the UAE by the country's Ministry of Health and Prevention," the TASS Foundation said.

Earlier, the Philippine authorities approved the decision to use the Russian Sputnik Light vaccine as a universal booster, regardless of the first vaccine.

On November 25, the director of the Gamaleya National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology, Alexander Gintsburg, said that 70 million sets of the Sputnik V anti-coronavirus vaccine and 15 million Sputnik Light were released into civilian circulation in Russia.