Uzbekistan to buy Russian COVID-19 vaccine, produce Chinese one

Uzbekistan will purchase 1 million doses of the Russian-developed Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine, the Central Asian nation's government said on Wednesday.

The Tashkent government also said it would set up a joint venture for the domestic production of a vaccine developed by China's Zhifei Longcom Biopharmaceutical Co whose trials were done in Uzbekistan among other countries.