Morocco Orders 1 Million Doses of Russian Sputnik V COVID-19 Vaccine

The kingdom has placed an order for nearly one million doses of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine, TelQuel reported last week. Developed by the Gamaleya Research Institute in Moscow, this viral vector vaccine was for a long time the subject of bad publicity, since the detailed data on its effects were not made public before Russia, last summer, self-declared the "big winner of the vaccine race".

But later, the vaccine proved itself and is now attracting the attention of several countries, including Europeans. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has already started the study of the Sputnik V file.