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A delegation of 10 Turkish officials, including Presidential spokesperson İbrahim Kalın, Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy and deputy health minister, has paid a visit to Russia to discuss tourism and the delivery of Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine.

Russia stopped flights to Turkey for 45 days after seeing a surge in the number of coronavirus cases in Turkey.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on April 30 said he believes that Turkey will not have a problem in the supply of COVID-19 vaccines and that he will discuss with Russian President Vladimir Putin if required on the issue of the delivery of Sputnik V vaccines to the country.

India registered unprecedented peak of 217,353 coronavirus cases on a single day today, as authorities enforced more restrictions to contain a severe second wave of infections.

The new infections were 7.6 per cent higher than yesterday, when the country registered 200,739 cases, according to Health Ministry.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday he got his second COVID-19 vaccine shot, three weeks after getting the first dose.

The Russian leader announced getting the jab, which was kept out of the public eye, at a session of the Russian Geographical Society, in which he took part via video link.

Matovic's sudden visits to Moscow and Budapest last week in an attempt to salvage the 200,000 Russian-made Sputnik V vaccines that he secretly procured in early March, yet have lain unused in Slovak warehouses since, took even his coalition partners by surprise.

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Russian Fund for Direct Investment and Institute of Virology, Vaccines and Sera, Torlak announced earlier today that an agreement was made on the production of the Sputnik V vaccine in Serbia.

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Albanian citizens cast their votes at a polling station in Tirana, Albania, 30 June 2019. Albanians headed to the polls for local elections. EPA-EFE/MALTON DIBRA

Critics say the Socialist-controlled government is rigging the rules to make Russia's Sputnik V the dominant vaccine in Moldova, eyeing the political dividends.

Struggling with surging COVID-19 infections, several Balkan countries said on Wednesday that they would step up restrictions in hopes of easing the pressure on their overburdened health systems.