vaccine.The vaccines would be manufactured overseas and circulated globally as soon as November. However, the shot would require local regulatory approval before distribution.'Sputnik V' was approved by the Russian authorities on August 11 even though there was skepticism among the Western countries about the "speed with which it was registered".While Russia is expected to undertake mass vaccinations of its own population by the end of 2020, China has injected "hundreds of thousands" of people with its own vaccine.