Russia has sent about 1 million test kits for covid diagnostics to CIS countries at no cost, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said on Friday.
"We continue to help our friends in the Commonwealth as well. We have sent more than one million test kits for [coronavirus] diagnosis to CIS countries free of charge," the prime minister said, speaking by video conference at a meeting of the CIS Council of Heads of Government.
Mishustin stressed that together with the intensification of economic cooperation he considers the fight against coronavirus a priority task. "Measures should be taken to interrupt the chains of incidence," he said, stressing that he considers mass vaccination of citizens to be the main thing in this matter. The Russian prime minister also emphasized that Russia pays the most serious attention to this issue.
Speaking about vaccination Mishustin emphasized that "Russian vaccines are supplied to all states of the Commonwealth, agreements on opening of license production facilities at local sites are fulfilled".
"We are ready to provide scientific and methodological support to medical specialists. Moreover, agreements on cooperation in the sphere of sanitary protection of the CIS member states as well as the medium-term plan of joint actions in combating the spread of infectious diseases were signed at the Council of heads of governments in late May," the Russian prime minister said. The prime minister noted that Russia has already fulfilled the state procedures necessary for these agreements to come into force. He also called on the partners to complete this work in the near future: "We must act together to protect people from new waves of the disease".
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Based on materials from TASS