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Pakistan is set to receive its first batch of Russia's Sputnik V vaccines today, Bloomberg reported earlier in the day.

The company's local partner AGP is poised to receive 50,000 doses of the Russian vaccine that will be sold in the private market, Bloomberg said, citing people familiar with the matter.

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