Countries across the globe say they’ve been let down by broken promises and stalled deliveries of Russia’s Sputnik V Covid vaccine.
Scores of countries enlisted Russia’s help through deals to buy millions of doses of Sputnik V, unveiled last year as the world’s first Covid jab.
Earlier this year, the head of the state-run Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) – responsible for marketing the vaccine abroad – said Russia had the “capacity to provide the vaccine to 700 million people outside Russia” in 2021.
Yet as of July, many countries, including developing nations, have reported receiving only a fraction of the doses for which they’ve paid.
Russia has championed Sputnik V as part of its “vaccine diplomacy” with developing nations.
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