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One of the team that developed the Sputnik V vaccine vaccine is dead

Andrey Botykov | Photo: linkedin.com/in/andrey-botikov

Moscow: One of the scientists who was part of the team that developed Sputnik V, Russia’s covid vaccine, has died.

A Russian media outlet reported that Andrey Botykov was found strangled to death with a belt in his home.

Police arrested a 29-year-old youth in the incident. Police said that an argument between the two led to the murder.

Botykov, 47, is a senior researcher at the Gamelaya National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology in Moscow.

In 2020, Sputnik was one of 18 researchers who developed the vaccine.

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