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Putin says India, China may start producing Russia's Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine: RIA

FILE PHOTO: Russia's President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with President of Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia Aslan Bzhaniya at the Bocharov Ruchei state residence in Sochi, Russia November 12, 2020. Sputnik/Aleksey Nikolskyi/Kremlin via REUTERS

India and China may start producing Russia's Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19, the RIA news agency cited President Vladimir Putin as saying on Tuesday.

Putin also proposed that the creation of a vaccine research centre for BRICS countries - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - be sped up, TASS reported.

(Reporting by Polina Devitt; Writing by Alexander Marrow; Editing by Jon Boyle)

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