The World Health Organization (WHO) has said it is discussing with the Russian fitness government an imaginable prequalification through WHO of its new COVID-19 vaccine, a WHO spokesperson said Tuesday.
“It is important that we put in place all the public aptitude measures that we know are working, and we will need to continue to invest and drive the progression of effective remedies and vaccines that will help us reduce disease transmission in the future.” WHO spokesman Tarik Jasarevic said at a UN conference in Geneva.
“We are in close contact with the Russian government of physical conditioning and discussions are taking place regarding imaginable detection of the vaccine by WHO, but the prequalification of any vaccine includes rigorous review and evaluation of all necessary knowledge on protection and efficacy,” he said. he added, referring to clinical trials.
“We are following the progress of the progression of COVID-19 vaccines and are maintaining the candidate vaccine landscape project, which is updated weekly on our website,” the spokesman said. “WHO lists 25 candidate vaccines for clinical evaluation and 139 for preclinical evaluation.”
President Vladimir Putin announced Tuesday that Russia was the first country to sign a COVID-19 vaccine after less than two months of human testing.
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The Gamaleya National Research Center developed the vaccine, which officially registered with the Russian Ministry of Health, Putin said at an assembly of government officials in Moscow.
Putin is confident that the vaccine was and that he had given it to one of his daughters.
“I know it works effectively, the bureaucracy has strong immunity and, I repeat, has passed all the mandatory controls,” Putin said.
Registering the vaccine with the Ministry of Health would allow a phase III trial with thousands of participants.
President Rodrigo Duterte has in the past grateful and accepted Russia’s offer to stock up on COVID-19 vaccines in the Philippines, adding that he was expecting a COVID-free Christmas birthday party in the country.
In his public address Monday, the president said he was very pleased that the country’s “friend”, Russia, is administering vaccines opposed to COVID-19 to the Philippines.
“Nagpapasalamat ho ako inyo a mabuting loob ninyo to Filipino. One day we will, makabayad guy lang kami sa utang na loob sa inyo (thank you for your Filipino kindness. One day we’ll refund you,” he said Monday night.