Russia is ready to supply European nations with its Sputnik V jab as it believes people “deserve” to have a choice of vaccines but it is up to the EU to allow it, said Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund.
“We want people to have a choice of vaccines,” Dmitriev told RT. Various drug watchdogs should determine whether such a vaccine is safe but they should not “limit the choice that people deserve to have” for some political reasons, he added, explaining his agency’s position on supplying the pioneering Russian vaccine to other nations and particularly on its pending appraisal in the EU.He also said that the Russian jab is based on an adenoviral vector technology that “has been proven to be safe for decades,” adding that “many people can specifically choose a vaccine based on this technology because of its benefits.”
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