Amid the hype surrounding potential Covid-19 vaccines and their distribution and inoculation against the novel coronavirus, Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared his goal to get vaccinated, according to a report.
This announcement points to the Russian president’s epidemiological coverage measures, according to the Russian news agency TASS citing Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
“Of course, there are special precautions regarding the Head of State. He has already said that he is thinking about the vaccine,” said the spokesman. He added that “to diminish the significance of epidemiological precautionary measures, it is necessary to get vaccinated,” TASS reported.
Putin will reportedly make an official stopover in South Korea as part of sanitary and epidemiological measures in view of the current global spread of the new coronavirus, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with the news agency. South Korean Yonhap news.
During his verbal telephone exchange with South Korean President Moon Jae-in, Putin promised to get vaccinated and travel to Seoul. The spokesman clarified that “the president does not talk about foreign affairs in general. “
“As part of the conversation, he spoke exclusively about his possible stopover in South Korea. He did not mention other trips,” the Kremlin representative said in reaction to the question of whether this meant that the Russian leader would face each other again. face-to-face practice. -travels in user after said inoculation, reported TASS. However, the spokesperson stated that, at times, this measure would make planning this type of trip much easier.
The Kremlin representative declined to say when exactly the president intends to be vaccinated and whether he will wait until the third phase of clinical trials is over. “Let’s wait until he makes this decision himself,” he concluded. The spokesperson promised that this data would be made public. “We will keep this secret,” the TASS company quoted the spokesman as saying.
On August 11, Russia became the first country to authorize a vaccine against Covid-19, calling it “Sputnik V” in homage to the world’s first satellite, introduced through the Soviet Union. But Western experts have warned against its use until Around the world, tests have been agreed and regulatory measures have been adopted. The vaccine is in phase 3 trials.
The vaccine produced an antibody reaction in all participants in the first trials, according to previous information through the medical journal The Lancet and hailed in Moscow as a reaction to its criticism.
The results of the two trials, carried out between June and July of this year and involving 76 participants, showed that one hundred percent of the participants developed antibodies against the new coronavirus and had no serious side effects, The Lancet reported.
However, an organization of foreign scientists disputed the findings of the Lancet medical journal, saying some of them were unlikely, Bloomberg reported.
Researchers raised concerns about possible antibody levels in several study participants who received the experimental vaccine. This and other data trends raise “several other issues of concern,” according to an open letter written by Temple University professor Enrico Bucci and signed by more than a dozen other scientists.
Meanwhile, Russia has recorded 8,481 cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the cumulative total to 1,176,286, the Coronavirus Response Center said Wednesday.
The largest known increase occurred in Moscow, where 2,308 new positive tests were registered. In total, 276 new cases were registered in St. Petersburg and 222 cases in the Moscow region. No new cases have been reported in the Chukotka Autonomous Region.
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