The mayor of Moscow, russia’s capital, invited others to participate in the Covid-19 vaccine trials the country had approved this month, the Associated Press reported.
The mayor sees it as a victory for Russia, along with the successful launch of the Soviet Union of the world’s first satellite in 1957.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobianin announced that after registration, the search procedure will begin and last for six months. The studies will be conducted with 40,000 participants.
Sobyanin is confident that the vaccine has been shown and is based on previous studies on coronavirus.
“We were all looking ahead to see the creation of a vaccine, and now we have it. Now, the other people of Moscow have an exclusive opportunity for the main participants in clinical studies that will help defeat the coronavirus,” the mayor said. the media, as quoted in the Associated Press report.
This occurs when the World Health Organization has started talks with Russia about its vaccine.
WHO has expressed its fear of the vaccine manufactured through Russia, which is the first in the world to obtain a licence.
However, the Russian government has violated the protocol requiring testing of the vaccine in tens of thousands of others to be effective, according to media reports.
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