“Russia will produce 88 million vaccine doses in the first half of this year, including 83 million doses of its Sputnik V shot”, affirmed the Russian Deputy Prime Minister, Tatiana Golikova, on Saturday.

“Of these, 59 million will be released for the national inoculation programme”, she added. Russia has produced 11.1 million COVID-19 vaccine doses so far, of which 7.9 million have been released for the national inoculation programme, she added.

It will produce 30.5 million doses by the end of the first quarter of this year, she concluded.