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25 Nov 2020, PTI: RDIF continues expanding existing agreements with international manufacturing partners to produce the vaccine for more than 500 million people in 2021 MOSCOW, Nov. 24, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The cost of one dose of the Sputnik V vaccine for international markets will be less than 10. Sputnik V is a two dose vaccine.

Therefore, Sputnik V will be two or more times cheaper than mRNA vaccines with similar efficacy levels.[1] Vaccination with Sputnik V will be free of charge for Russian citizens.

LONDON, Nov 24 (APP): Pakistan exports to the United Kingdom (UK), during the month of October 2020, registered at US $ 200 million as compared to US $ 154 million realized in the corresponding month of last year showing an increase of 30 percent.

According to Economic Trade and Investment Wing of Pakistan High Commission London, Pakistan imports from the UK in October 2020 stood at US $ 48 million compared to the imports of US $ 62 million in the corresponding month of last fiscal year showing a
negative growth of (-23 percent).

MOSCOW, November 24. /TASS/: The Korean Peninsula’s nuclear problem must be resolved exclusively by diplomatic means through talks, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday as he received credentials from newly-appointed foreign ambassadors, including the new ambassador of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Sin Hong Chol.

"As far as the nuclear problem of the Korean Peninsula is concerned, it must be resolved exclusively by diplomatic means, through talks," Putin said.

MINSK, November 24. /TASS/: The West would like to involve Russia in toppling the current regime in Belarus, but currently has no idea how to do that, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko speculated Tuesday, according to the BelTA news agency.

MOSCOW, November 24. /TASS/: People with immunity to COVID-19 can still carry the coronavirus, Head of Russia’s Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing Anna Popova told reporters on Tuesday.

"Immunity is not sterile, which means that the virus can exist in a person who is not ill and has no symptoms. The virus exists on mucous membranes and in other cells of the body," she explained.

MOSCOW, November 24. /TASS/: The European Union should abandon its hypocritical policy towards Ukraine and human rights, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zaskharova said, commenting on the European External Action Service’s statement that Moscow’s decision to recognize "documents and vehicle registrations issued to citizens and permanent residents of Ukraine's Donetsk and Lugansk regions… constitutes yet another attempt by Russia to undermine Ukraine's sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity."

MOSCOW, November 24. /TASS/: Russian healthcare is highly overloaded amid the coronavirus pandemic, but the infection spread in general remains under control, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists Tuesday.

"The epidemiologic situation becomes more complicated," he noted. "The healthcare system operates, undoubtedly, in a high overload mode, but still, aside from several troubled regions, which [Deputy Prime Minister] Tatiana Golikova spoke about, the situation in general remains under control."

BERLIN/ANKARA, Nov 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Turkey forced German soldiers to abandon an operation aimed at enforcing the Libya arms embargo in the Mediterranean, the Bundeswehr Military said.

According to the Joint Military Command, German marines boarded a suspicious Turkish cargo ship on Sunday to check its cargo. But shortly afterwards, Turkey as the flag state vetoed the search and the German soldiers then had to abort the mission.

24 Nov 2020; MEMO: France, Germany and Britain hinted yesterday that they will impose sanctions on any party that obstructs the political agreement between the two parties to the Libyan conflict.

In a joint statement, the four countries welcomed recent progress in the Libyan talks under the auspices of the United Nations and the announcement of an election date, reported Libya 24.

23 Nov 2020; MEMO: Germany sees a chance to return to a joint transatlantic approach in tackling Iran's nuclear programme once the new US administration under President-elect Joe Biden takes office, a German official said on Monday.