This is the type of vaccine that can end the pandemic. Cheap to produce, cheap to distribute, old well-understood technology.
Also many countries have the capacity to produce a similar vaccine. For example here is a feel good story from RT about Venezuela buying Russia's similar Sputnik vaccine:
https://www.rt.com/news/511063-sputnik-vaccine-venezuela-dea...
10 m. doses to be delivered within 3 months. How long time would it have taken Venezuela to procure a similar amount of mRNA vaccines from Pzifer or Moderna?