RDIF says 100 million people have been vaccinated abroad with Sputnik V

More than 100 million people have been vaccinated with the Sputnik V vaccine outside of RUSSIA, Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), said in an interview with BLOOMBERG TV.

“We expect the vaccine to be approved by the end of the year, after a series of bureaucratic procedures,” he told Bloomberg. WHO has not yet announced the date of recognition of the vaccine, the agency writes. The application is under discussion, there is not enough research and data from the Russian side for a final decision.

The head of the RDIF in an interview noted that the delays in the delivery of Sputnik V outside the Russian Federation, which happened before, have been eliminated. Now foreign countries receive Sputnik V exactly on schedule.

World volumes of vaccine production exceed Russian ones. The Center for HEALTH Innovation (a project at Duke University in North Carolina supported by Bill and Melinda Gates) predicts that Pfizer will produce 3 billion vaccines this year, Sinopharm will produce 1 billion vaccines, and Moderna will produce 800 million doses, while the planned production of "Sputnik V" - only 390 million doses.