Shades of new cold war in Russia’s battle to sell Sputnik vaccine
Many countries’ regulators have been unwilling to give it fast-track approval
31 December 2020 - 08:43
Moscow — Russia is accusing the West of maligning its achievements in the global race to defeat Covid-19 as its attempts to win key markets for its Sputnik V vaccine run up against the demands of regulators.
“We understand the game,” Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, which backed Sputnik V’s development and negotiates its international rollout, said in an interview. “It’s a combination of some misunderstanding, some strong bias and, really, some very strong efforts to undermine the Russian vaccine.”..
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