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Russia has today claimed its coronavirus vaccine is 92 per effective, which would make it better than the jab being developed by Pfizer.

Declaring early results just two days after the American pharmaceutical company, it said out of 20 infections recorded so far up to two were in people who had received a shot of the vaccine - dubbed Sputnik V.

The country's Minister of Health, Mikhail Murashko, heralded the results as revealing Sputnik V's is an 'efficient solution to stop the spread of coronavirus'.