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Russia registers Covid vax, Putin's daughter in test group
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IANS | 11 Aug, 2020
In what could alter the course of the Covid-19 pandemic that is still
creating mayhem across the world, Russian President Vladimir Putin on
Tuesday said the country has registered the world's first Covid-19
vaccine that "forms stable cell and antibody immunity".
According to a report in the Tass news agency, Putin said that the vaccine was registered on Tuesday morning.
"As
far as I know, this morning for the first time in the world a vaccine
against the novel coronavirus infection was registered," Putin was
quoted as saying as he opened a meeting with the state officials.
Putin informed that one of his daughters tested the Russian Covid-19 vaccine on herself and she is feeling well.
The Russian President has two daughters -- Maria who was born in 1985 and Katerina who was born in 1986.
"I know this very well, because one of my daughters got vaccinated, so in this sense, she took part in testing," Putin said.
"After
the second shot, she had a slight fever again, and then everything was
fine. She is feeling well and has a high [antibody] count," the
President informed.
Putin pointed out that "some people did not have any symptoms at all" after getting a vaccine shot.
The
overall number of global coronavirus cases has surpassed the 20
million-mark, while the worldwide death toll has increased to over
734,000, according to data released by the Johns Hopkins University.
Russia's
coronavirus cases rose by 4,945 to 897,599 in the past 24 hours. The
new daily cases dropped below the 5,000-mark for the first time since
April 23.
Russia said on Monday that it was going ahead with its
plan to register the world's first Covid-19 vaccine this week before it
starts mass vaccination in October, despite safety concerns raised from
several quarters, including the World Health Organization (WHO).
Russia is the fourth worst-hit nation by the pandemic after the US, Brazil and India.
The vaccine has been jointly developed by the Gamaleya Research Institute and the Russian Defence Ministry.
On
August 3, a "final medical examination" of participants in clinical
trials of the vaccine took place at the Burdenko Main Military Clinical
Hospital, the Russian Defence Ministry had earlier said in a statement.
The
results clearly showed that all volunteers had a clear immune response
resulting from vaccination, the ministry said, adding that there were no
side effects or abnormalities in the work of the volunteers.
Of
the six Covid-19 vaccine candidates that have reached the Phase 3 level
according to the WHO, three are from China and the other three include
the ones developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca, Moderna,
and one jointly developed by Pfizer and BioNTech.
Russian Health
Minister Mikhail Murashko had earlier said that clinical trials of the
vaccine developed by the Gamaleya National Research Center for
Epidemiology and Microbiology of the Russian Healthcare Ministry were
over.
Russia is facing international scepticism due to its fast approach in developing the vaccine.
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