A medical worker holds a vial of Sputnik Light vaccine in his hand. File photoMINSK, Apr 18A validation series of the Sputnik Light vaccine has been released in Belarus and sent to Russia for quality control, the press service of the Ministry of Health of the Republic said on Monday. «Today, the Minister of Health demonstrated the vaccine to the President» Sputnik Light «of Belarusian production. On April 14, a validation series of the vaccine was released, and on April 15, this series was sent for quality control at the N.F. Gamaleya Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology in Russia,» the ministry's Telegram channel said. 
An experimental series of «Sputnik V» and «Sputnik Light» was released in Belarus. on the production of the Sputnik Light vaccine against the COVID-19 infection in a full cycle. The Belarusian enterprise Belmedpreparaty has been producing Sputnik V since last year, and on April 14, 2021, the Ministry of Health approved its use on the territory of Belarus. In the country, the vaccine is still bottled from a semi-finished product, which is produced by the Generium company, which is part of Pharmstandard JSC. Minsk planned to launch a project to organize the production of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine in the republic on a full cycle. Earlier, Prime Minister of Belarus Roman Golovchenko said that the Sputnik V vaccine, produced in the republic on a full cycle, will go into civilian circulation in the summer of 2022, the production volume will be about 10 million doses per year. The general director of the Republican unitary enterprise «Belmedpreparaty» Sergei Belyaev later specified that the production of Sputnik V and Sputnik Light vaccines for the population could begin in Belarus in the summer. At the same time, Belarus is interested in expanding the list of Russian coronavirus vaccines produced on its territory, said the Minister of Health of the Republic Pinevich. that he «stopped all coronaviruses»
