New Delhi, 11 August: At least 20 countries have expressed interest in obtaining Sputnik V, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Brazil, Mexico and India, reports
Russia has the first country in the world to sign a vaccine opposed to COVID-19, President Vladimir Putin announced Tuesday at a government meeting.
“A coronavirus vaccine first recorded in the world this morning,” Putin said in an assembly with members of his government.
“I know it works effectively, bureaucracy is a solid immunity,” Putin said, as quoted through the official Tass news agency.
Putin’s statement came amid expert considerations about the speed of Russia’s work, suggesting that researchers are taking shortcuts.
Sputnik V: Russia records world’s first Covid-19 vaccine, Putin’s daughter is vaccinated
Amid fears that security has been compromised, the World Health Organization (WHO) last week suggested that Russia adhere to foreign rules for the production of a vaccine opposed to COVID-19, the BBC reported.
The Russian vaccine is on WHO’s list of six vaccines that have reached phase 3 of clinical trials, which involve more widespread human testing, according to the report.
Putin said one of his daughters had tried on a Russian COVID-19 vaccine in itself and that she felt good. He claimed that the first Russian COVID-19 vaccine strong cell immunity and antibodies.
“I know very well, because one of my daughters was sucked, so in that sense she took part in the tests,” Putin said.
The vaccine is called Sputnik-V. The call refers to the wonderful launch in 1957 of the world’s first satellite across the Soviet Union.
The remedy has not yet been the subject of very important phase 3 trials in which thousands of people would be administered.
President Putin noted that after the first vaccine, his daughter had a fever of 38 degrees Celsius and the next day, a fever above 37 degrees Celsius.
“And then, after the moment he was shot, he had a little fever again, then everything was fine, he felt good and he’s got a large number [of antibodies],” Putin said.
Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said vaccine trials conducted through the Russian Ministry of Health’s National Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology Research have been completed.
Doctors and teachers will be the first to get the COVID-19 vaccine, he said.
“We will begin civil use step by step of the vaccine. First, we would like to offer vaccination to those who come into contact with others who are inflamed at work. It’s the medical workers. And also those who are guilty of the fitness of children — teachers, ” said the minister.
The vaccine has two injected parts that together deserve to build long-term immunity against the virus, Sputniknews reported.
Clinical trials of the vaccine began on June 18 and included 38 volunteers. All participants developed immunity. The first organization launched on July 15, the organization of the moment on July 20.
It will be in flux from January 1, 2021, the National Register of Pharmaceutical Products reported on Tuesday.
“Presentation of civil traffic date – 01.01.2021”, the notes.
The Gamaleya Centre has been reported to have developed two vaccine bureaucracies: one liquid and one freeze-dried.
Health Minister Murashko said the coronavirus infection vaccine will occur in Russia at two sites.
Russia won a request to produce one billion doses of the COVID-19 vaccine from 20 states, Kirill Dmitriev, director of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), said at a conference.
We have won initial applications to acquire more than one billion doses of vaccines from 20 states. We are able to produce over 500 million doses of vaccines with our foreign partners in five countries and plan to further develop our production capacity,” he said.
According to Dmitriev, several states in Latin America, the Middle East and Asia have expressed interest in the Russian vaccine. Several contracts have been terminated.
He noted that Brazil and India were of great interest, with more than five countries actively working with Russia to start production of the vaccine.
According to the Johns Hopkins University account, coronavirus has inflamed more than 20 million people worldwide.