<p>Russia has given preliminary approval for its Covid-19 Sputnik V vaccine to be manufactured in Serbia, a minister said on Friday.</p>.<p>"The first phase of the production of Russia's vaccine Sputnik V on Serbia's territory has been preliminarily approved," Serbia's minister for innovations Nenad Popovic said in a statement.</p>.<p>The announcement was made after a delegation of experts from Russia's industry and commerce ministries, the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) -- which financed the vaccine -- and the Balkan country's state institute for drugs visited the Belgrade-based virology institute.</p>.<p>"They are satisfied with what they saw at the Torlak institute," the minister said.</p>.<p><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tag/coronavirus" target="_blank"><strong>CORONAVIRUS SPECIAL COVERAGE ONLY ON DH</strong></a></p>.<p>Another group of Russian experts should visit Serbia within the next 15 days to assess what technical and technological conditions would have to be met to allow full-scale production of the vaccine on Serbian territory, he added.</p>.<p>Serbia is Europe's fastest vaccinator apart from Britain, according to the scientific publication Our World in Data.</p>.<p>More than 6,00,000 people have been vaccinated so far in the country of seven million people.</p>.<p>Serbia, which aspires to join the European Union but also maintains a delicate balance of ties with China and Russia, is using three shots -- Sputnik V, Chinese Sinopharm and US-German Pfizer-BioNTech.</p>.<p>Since the start of the pandemic, it has confirmed more than 4,00,000 infections and more than 4,000 deaths from the respiratory disease.</p>
<p>Russia has given preliminary approval for its Covid-19 Sputnik V vaccine to be manufactured in Serbia, a minister said on Friday.</p>.<p>"The first phase of the production of Russia's vaccine Sputnik V on Serbia's territory has been preliminarily approved," Serbia's minister for innovations Nenad Popovic said in a statement.</p>.<p>The announcement was made after a delegation of experts from Russia's industry and commerce ministries, the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) -- which financed the vaccine -- and the Balkan country's state institute for drugs visited the Belgrade-based virology institute.</p>.<p>"They are satisfied with what they saw at the Torlak institute," the minister said.</p>.<p><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tag/coronavirus" target="_blank"><strong>CORONAVIRUS SPECIAL COVERAGE ONLY ON DH</strong></a></p>.<p>Another group of Russian experts should visit Serbia within the next 15 days to assess what technical and technological conditions would have to be met to allow full-scale production of the vaccine on Serbian territory, he added.</p>.<p>Serbia is Europe's fastest vaccinator apart from Britain, according to the scientific publication Our World in Data.</p>.<p>More than 6,00,000 people have been vaccinated so far in the country of seven million people.</p>.<p>Serbia, which aspires to join the European Union but also maintains a delicate balance of ties with China and Russia, is using three shots -- Sputnik V, Chinese Sinopharm and US-German Pfizer-BioNTech.</p>.<p>Since the start of the pandemic, it has confirmed more than 4,00,000 infections and more than 4,000 deaths from the respiratory disease.</p>