 Kazakhstan has launched its own domestically-developed vaccine for mass inoculations against COVID-19, starting with popular locations such as shopping malls. Almost a million people in the former Soviet Republic of 19 million have already received the Russian-developed Sputnik V vaccine that Kazakhstan both imports and produces domestically. The Central Asian Republic's sovereign wealth fund has also ordered a million doses of Chinese-developed signed-from vaccine. But this week, the oil-exporting country made its own vaccine available to the general public, with healthcare minister Alexei Sua receiving a job in front of the media.