Mr Hunt, who is quarantined in Canberra, Australia, had already signed two pre-contract confidentiality agreements with vaccine manufacturers.
He comments on a report that Australia is just days away from signing an agreement with Oxford University to produce its “promising” vaccine.
Progression occurs when former lead medical officer Professor Brendan Murphy led a team on Sunday to investigate “negotiating positions” for contracts.
At least 160 clinical trials are already underway and are expected to start more in the coming months as researchers seek the ultimate effective remedy for the virus.
“As far as the Russian vaccine is concerned, this is not our team of medical experts at this stage,” Hunt said.
“We’ll monitor him, we’ll be very careful with him given the small number, less than 40, he’d been to in the first tests.
Hunt said knowledge showed that scientists are now much more likely to expand a genuine vaccine that would be available in 2021.
But it was unclear whether it would be a partial vaccine, which is used to fight viruses such as influenza, which wishes to be up to date and possibly would not offer universal protection.
A comprehensive vaccine opposed to coronavirus would provide coverage for smallpox or measles vaccines that are opposed to smallpox or measles.
Hunt said a coronavirus vaccine would be fully funded through the government and available to the entire population.
He told Sky News on Sunday morning that the negotiations had a “real ray of hope.”
A scientist works at a laboratory plant in Garín, Buenos Aires, an experimental coronavirus vaccine will be produced for Latin America. Photo: Juan Mabromata / AFP Source: AFP
The biotechnology company CSL has a facility in Melbourne that has been marked as a ground production site.
Opposition fitness critic Chris Bowen welcomed the announcement that the government was negotiating complex source agreements, but said Australia was the rest of the world.
“The US has six of those agreements ready, the UK, three, Japan, three, Brazil has one, South Korea has one,” Bowen said.
“We expect a vaccine to be in 2021 and, indeed, the faster in 2021, the better.”
“We want at least 60% of the population to be vaccinated as soon as possible and, of course, in due course, each and every Australian will be vaccinated against COVID-19 when this vaccine is available.”
The Sunday Telegraph reports that the federal government is in the final stages of negotiations with a manufacturer to produce the drug of pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca.
The UK-based company recently signed the first final agreement on vaccine sources in the European Union and has committed to 400 doses of the experimental AZD1222 vaccine.
Hunt said he is “optimistic” that a vaccine is closed, but refused to check the top points in the Sunday Telegraph’s report.
Mexico and Argentina have concluded agreements to produce the COVID-19 vaccine, designed through the University of Oxford.
Last week, former medical leader Brendan Murphy showed that Australia is exploring its characteristics for a vaccine, saying that once an agreement is reached and the vaccine is ready, it will only take a few weeks to start production.
The South American lab produces the vaccine designed in Oxford. Photo: Juan Mabromata / AFP Source: AFP
“We’ve been following all vaccine developments closely, we’re actively talking to all successful applicants so far, we’re at the end of the line,” Dr Murphy said.
“There will be announcements shortly.
“We’re at the front of the queue.”
Australia has recorded 23287 coronaviruses diagnosed since January and 396 lives lost.
“Today this adds up to 16 of Victoria, terribly, and one from NSW,” he said.
On Sunday, another 680 people were in hospitals in Australia. Forty-seven are still under intensive care and 34 of them are connected to fans.
In Victoria, 414 elderly villagers were transferred to hospitals as a result of on-site outbreaks.
Federal figures also reveal 39 active cases among members of the state’s national disability insurance plan.
But Hunt said there’s also “hope in numbers.”
“These things combine to show an early but transparent flattening of the curve,” he said.