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Interview with RDIF CEO Kirill Dmitriev

The biggest risk of developing a new wave of the CORONAVIRUS pandemic is associated with active mutations of the disease-causing virus, Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), said in an interview with RBC. Countries most at risk are countries where few people have been vaccinated against covid-19 .

If SARS-CoV-2 mutations actively occur in the far corners of the planet where there is no vaccine now, the virus will return to rich countries, so it is important to work to ensure that there is access to the vaccine all over the world, Dmitriev said. The head of RDIF also spoke about how he helped the Sputnik V vaccine achieve registration in dozens of countries, how the joint trials of ASTRAZENECA and Sputnik V are progressing, about the problems of the PCR industry, and about the profitability of investments in COVID-19 drugs. Read about it in the full version of his interview.

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