Russia hopes that the certification of the vacuna Sputnik V by the World Health Organization (WHO) occurs “in a few months.”
According to the Interfax news agency, the spokesman for the Russian presidency Dmitri Peskov stated: “I am deeply convinced that literally in a few months … the WHO will approve Sputnik and it will also be possible to advance on this path. with Europe “.
According to Peskov, the ITAR-TASS agency indicated, it can be questioned why the WHO has yet to acknowledge the Russian vaccine and “what’s behind it: some kind of bias against us or purely bureaucratic issues.”
According to the Russian Minister of Industry and Commerce, Denis Manturov, the approval of the Sputnik V by WHO it will speed up the recognition of Russian vaccination passports by Europe, the agency said.
Anti-vaccine, “dangerous fools”
Peskov also called opponents of coronavirus vaccination “dangerous fools.” In Russia, medical experts believe that the coronavirus pandemic may last another six months or a year, but sooner or later it will end, Interfax said.
Russian health chief Anna Popova recalled that in the “sad history of the development of pandemics, including cholera, (…) the pandemic took decades to subside or disappear.”
“In the history of epidemiology, there are no cases in which an epidemic rose or a pandemic did not end. But we have a lot on our hands to do it faster. That it will end is absolutely certain, the question is when,” he said.
The head of the European office of the WHO, Hans Klugge, pointed out that “sooner or later we will evolve from a pandemic to an endemic one.”
Pfizer executives said on Friday that Covid-19 will be endemic beginning in 2024, meaning the virus will transition from a global emergency to a constant presence causing regional outbreaks around the world, much like the flu.
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