ILLUSTRATION. Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with members of the government via video link at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia, August 11, 2020.
Source: Reuters | Editor: SS Kurniawan
KONTAN.CO.ID – MOSCOW. Russia gave regulatory approval for a second new coronavirus vaccine, President Vladimir Putin announced at a government meeting taking place Wednesday (14/10).
Putin congratulated scientists from the Siberian Vector Institute on developing a vaccine for the coronavirus, and completing its initial human trials last month.
“We need to increase production of the first and second vaccines,” he said in a statement broadcast on Russian State TV.
“We continue to work with our foreign partners and will promote our vaccines abroad,” he said.
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Russia in August became the first country to give regulatory approval for a coronavirus vaccine, doing so before large-scale trials were completed, which has caught the attention of some of the global scientific community.
About 400 high-risk patients have received their first shot of the vaccine, according to the Russian Ministry of Health. The vaccine, titled Sputnik V, in honor of the world’s first satellite that the Soviet Union launched, is not yet in general circulation.
Since the coronavirus pandemic began, Russia has recorded 1,340,409 infections, the fourth-largest number of cases in the world, after the United States, India and Brazil.
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