Russia Has Received Requests For 1.2Bln Doses Of COVID-19 Vaccine - Direct Investment Fund

Russia Has Received Requests for 1.2Bln Doses of COVID-19 Vaccine - Direct Investment Fund

Russia has received requests for 1.2 billion doses of its vaccine against COVID-19, the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund said on Thursday

MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 24th September, 2020) Russia has received requests for 1.2 billion doses of its vaccine against COVID-19, the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund said on Thursday.

"As for the international interest, we have received requests for over 1.2 billion doses of the vaccine," Kirill Dmitriev said at a press conference.

Dmitriev said earlier that the fund had received requests from over 20 countries for 1 billion doses of the Sputnik V vaccine, which became the world's first registered COVID-19 vaccine back in August.