A separate clinical study is needed to include pregnant women in the COVID-19 vaccination campaign, Alexander Gintsburg, the head of the Moscow-based Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, said on Tuesday
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 22nd September, 2020) A separate clinical study is needed to include pregnant women in the COVID-19 vaccination campaign, Alexander Gintsburg, the head of the Moscow-based Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, said on Tuesday.
"Certainly, it is necessary to conduct a separate clinical study, which has not been carried out yet," Gintsburg said at a roundtable on COVID-19, hosted by the Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency.
On August 11, Russia became the first country in the world to register a coronavirus vaccine, named Sputnik V and developed by the Gamaleya Institute.
