100,000 People Vaccinated With Sputnik V

Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said on a video call with the United Nations on December 2, 2020, that more than 100,000 people had already been vaccinated with the Sputnik V vaccine, reported Reuters.

Sputnik V is an adenoviral-based vaccine against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, that deploys different types of adenovirus vectors (rAd26 and rAd5) for the first and second vaccination. On August 1, 2020, the Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko announced 'clinical trials had been declared completed.'