KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia is in talks to secure 6.4 million doses of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine, science minister Khairy Jamaluddin said on Wednesday.
The Southeast Asian country is also in negotiations with Pfizer-BioNTech on an option to increase its purchase of vaccines to cover another 20% of its population, Khairy said in a press conference.
Malaysia has already secured 12.8 million doses from Pfizer under a deal signed last month, and earlier this week agreed to buy 6.4 million doses from AstraZeneca.
(Reporting by Rozanna Latiff and Liz Lee; Editing by Himani Sarkar)
