Russia's sovereign wealth fund said on Friday it had agreed to supply up to 35 million doses of the Russian experimental vaccine against COVID-19 to Uzbekistan's Laxisam, a pharmaceutical company.
FILE PHOTO: A nurse prepares Russia's"Sputnik-V" vaccine against the coronavirus disease for inoculation in a post-registration trials stage at a clinic in Moscow, Russia September 17, 2020. REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva/File Photo
MOSCOW - Russia’s sovereign wealth fund said on Friday it had agreed to supply up to 35 million doses of the Russian experimental vaccine against COVID-19 to Uzbekistan’s Laxisam, a pharmaceutical company. The deal is one of several agreed by the Russian Direct Investment Fund in recent weeks to supply the vaccine, which is currently being tested in a large-scale trial in Moscow, abroad.Reporting by Anastasia Teterevleva; writing by Polina Ivanova; Editing by Alex Richardson
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