MOSCOW—Russia designs to roll out a Covid-19 vaccine to the normal population beginning in October, hoping to be the very first region to get started mass vaccinations in opposition to a virus that has killed far more than 679,000 people today entire world-vast.

Russia, which has observed the consequences of coronavirus pandemic pressure its overall health-care process and lockdown steps hit its economic system, has shortened trial acceptance situations and sped up clinical evaluations in an attempt to assert itself in the race for vaccine.