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Austria poised to order one million Sputnik vaccines

Austria is likely to order a million doses of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine next week, Reuters reported. "We are in the final metres and a Sputnik order can probably be placed next week," Kurz said in a statement published on Wednesday, after his meeting with Russia's ambassador to Austria. The agreement would involve 300,000 doses to be delivered in April, 500,000 in May and 200,000 in early June.

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