Russia can register its third vaccine against the coronavirus in a month, Anna Popova, the head of the national public health watchdog, Rospotrebnadzor, said on Thursday
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 15th October, 2020) Russia can register its third vaccine against the coronavirus in a month, Anna Popova, the head of the national public health watchdog, Rospotrebnadzor, said on Thursday.
In August, Russia became the first country in the world to register a vaccine against COVID-19, dubbed Sputnik V and developed by the Gamaleya research institute. On Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that the second vaccine, developed by the Vector center, was registered. Phase 2 trials of a vaccine by the Chumakov Federal Scientific Center for Research will start next week.
"I want to say that the Russian Federation has two vaccines, and I sure that the third vaccine should be registered in a month," Popova told the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.
