| German Chancellor Angela Merkel held a video press conference at the Prime Minister’s Consulate in Berlin, announcing extending full blockade measures to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 mutant virus. © AFP=News1 © News1 Reporter Dongmyeong Woo |
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is suffering from a vaccine shortage, said, “Russian corona 19 vaccines are also welcome.”
According to Reuters, Prime Minister Merkel said in an interview with the German public ARD on the 2nd (local time), “As long as it is approved by the European Medicines and Food Administration, Germany welcomes all vaccines.”
“We saw good data on Russian vaccines today,” he said. “We recently spoke with President Vladimir Putin about the Russian Corona 19 vaccine’Sputnik V’.”
On this day, the final clinical result stating that Sputnik V has a high preventive effect was published in the global medical journal’Lancet’. This is peer review, and the efficacy of the Russian vaccine has been recognized internationally.
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| Sputnik V Corona 19 vaccine developed by Russia. © Reuters = News 1 |
Russian scientists conducted an experiment on more than 20,000 people after the start of the clinical trial, and found that the reported cases of COVID-19 symptoms were 16 among those who received the Sputnik V vaccine and 62 cases in the placebo group. This proves that the Sputnik V vaccine, administered twice at 21-day intervals, shows 91.6% effectiveness in preventing COVID-19.
Sputnik V was controversial when it was approved for emergency use for the first time in the world in August of last year, even before the results of phase 3 clinical trials were released.
“The development of the Sputnik V vaccine has been criticized for being urgent, poor, and poor clinical transparency,” said Poly Roy, a professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, but the clinical results reported this time are clear and the scientific principles of vaccination have been proven. “It was evaluated.
Experts are saying that the world has gained another effective weapon to fight Corona 19, called’Sputnik V’after Pfizer and Modena.
In some regions of Germany, vaccination has been stopped due to a lack of vaccine supply, and accusations are being raised that the government has not actively taken steps to secure the vaccine.
Prime Minister Merkel emphasized that “Germany will complete vaccinations against 10 million people by the end of March,” and “will keep its promise to provide vaccines to the entire population by the end of the third and fourth quarters.”
Meanwhile, the Russian-made Sputnik V vaccine is commissioned in Korea, but Korea has not yet decided to import it. In Korea, GL Rapha plans to produce 150 million Sputnik Vs per year. However, everything produced here is exported.
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