Russian Industry Minister Denis Manturov said on Monday that his country was set to produce over 80 million doses of home-grown vaccines in the first half of this year.
He said 12.5 million doses would be produced in March and 17 million doses in April.
Manturov added that Russia had transferred the technology necessary to produce its vaccines to 10 other countries so far.
(Reporting by Polina Ivanova and Andrey Ostroukh; Writing by Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber; Editing by Andrew Osborn)
