Meanwhile, a vaccine expert says virtually everyone will eventually be exposed to the new coronavirus variant, adding that vaccinations still protect people from severe forms of Covid-19.
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Former President
Tarja Halonen has confirmed in an interview with commercial broadcaster MTV that Russian authorities offered the manufacturing technology for the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine to Finland.
According to the broadcaster, Halonen contacted
Valentina Matviyenko, speaker of the upper house of the Russian parliament, at the request of the World Health Organization (WHO).
The WHO request related to the approval process for the Sputnik vaccine, not the supply of production technology. I thanked her for the information and said that, of course, I have no authority to say anything more about it. Other than taking the matter forward in the government to Minister (