A Russian agency revealed that it had begun testing a vaccine against the emerging coronavirus, with the aim of preventing and controlling the "Covid 19" epidemic.

Sputnik said that the Russian Federal Authority for Consumer Rights Protection (Ross Potter Nadzor) announced today, Friday, that it had started testing the vaccine, adding that the body with the aim of preventing the epidemic developed vaccine models based on six different technological platforms in the shortest time possible. .

"The studies will determine the most promising and safe prototypes that guarantee the formation of providing immune formation, and the composition, dose and method of administration of the vaccine will be determined. Scientists hope that the vaccine will be introduced in the fourth quarter of 2020," the authority said in a statement.