“Today, the Minister of Health demonstrated the Belarusian-made Sputnik Light vaccine to the President,” the Ministry of Health said in a Telegram message.

It is noted that Pinevich told Lukashenka that the RUE Belmedpreparaty completed the next stage in the implementation of the joint Belarusian-Russian project for the production of the Sputnik Light vaccine against the COVID-19 infection in full cycle.

“On April 14, the first validation industrial series of the vaccine was released, and on April 15, this series was sent for quality control to the N.F.

Gamaleya to Russia,” the ministry said.

On March 13, it was reported that more than 5.2 million citizens of Belarus had completed a full course of vaccination against coronavirus.