Russia has boasted it will start a mass vaccination program of its citizens against coronavirus in October - but Britain is reportedly set to reject the jab if offered it.
Moscow yesterday bragged its vaccine would be a "Sputnik moment" as it is set to be the first country in the world to develop one.
Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said on Saturday that the Gamaleya Institute, a state research facility in Moscow, had completed clinical trials of the vaccine and paperwork is being prepared to register it.
He said doctors and teachers would be the first to be vaccinated, and added: "We plan wider vaccinations for October." Russia's first potential COVID-19 vaccine would secure local regulatory approval in August and be administered to