NOVO-OGAREVO, August 11. / TASS /. Russian President Vladimir Putin, opening a meeting with members of the government, announced the registration of the world’s first vaccine against coronavirus infection in Russia.
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“As far as I know, this morning, for the first time in the world, a vaccine against a new coronavirus infection has been registered,” the president said.
Putin asked the head of the Ministry of Health, Mikhail Murashko, to inform in detail about this. “I know that it works quite efficiently, forms a stable immunity and, I repeat, has passed all the necessary checks,” the Russian leader added.
Earlier, Murashko said that clinical trials of a vaccine developed by the National Research Center (SIC) for Epidemiology and Microbiology named after N.F. Gamaleya of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, ended.
Putin hopes that many vaccines against coronavirus will appear in the world over time. The mass production of the coronavirus vaccine will begin in the near future, the President of the Russian Federation expects.
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