“There is indeed some information that still needs to be submitted for certification,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
“We haven’t done that yet because we had different understandings of what information was and how to pass it on,” he added.
Such confessions are unusual, as Russia has regularly blamed political considerations for the fact that Sputnik V has not yet been confirmed.
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has also not yet approved Sputnik V, and experts from both agencies have repeatedly stated that the process is not moving forward because not all the necessary documents have been received from Russia.
In the WHO Emergency Vaccine Procedure, the manufacturer must demonstrate that the companies producing the vaccines meet the standards.
WHO experts are scheduled to visit vaccine plants in Russia in January.
According to the DPA, Russia has to prove that vaccines are prepared to the same high standards in all of its facilities.
Vaccines currently manufactured by the US companies Moderna and Pfizer (the latter together with German BioNTech), European Jannsen and AstraZeneca, Chinese Sinopharm and Sinovac, and India have been approved by the WHO for emergency use. Serum Institute of India “.
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