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Russia says it has taken the lead in the race to develop a vaccine that effectively protects against the coronavirus. Russian Health Minister MIjail Murashko announced on Saturday that clinical trials of the Covid-19 vaccine developed by Russia's National Center for Epidemiological and Microbiological Research "Gamalei" have been completed.

"The vaccine against the new coronavirus developed by the Gamalei center has concluded the clinical tests and now the documents are being prepared for registration," he said, reports the Russian agency TASS. According to the Minister of Health, doctors and teachers will be the first to receive this vaccine, and it is planned that it will be sent to the Russian regions from August 10.

"We plan that the broader vaccination campaign , which will gradually be added to the new care system, begin in October," Murashko said.

This vaccine project is based on human adenovirus, a common cold virus, mixed with the SARS CoV-2 protein to stimulate an immune response. Although Russia has been announcing for days that it generates an immune response, the intensity or duration of that immune response is still unclear.

The minister added that the second Russian vaccine , developed by the Véctor center, is currently in the process of clinical tests and stated that the Ministry of Health expects "in the next month and a half or two months" to receive two other requests for permission for the clinical tests of new vaccines.

United States' top epidemiologist Anthony Fauci said on Friday that he hopes China and Russia "are really testing" the Covid-19 vaccines they develop "before giving them to anyone." Fauci made these remarks after Russian authorities indicated the upcoming approval of the new coronavirus vaccine, ahead of the United States.

Russia registers a slight improvement in the situation of the Covid-19 pandemic . Since last July 20 the number of new infections has remained below 6,000 and this Saturday 95 deaths have been reported, 66 fewer than the previous day. During the last day, 5,462 new cases were reported, while 8,114 patients were discharged.

Since the pandemic began, 845,443 people have fallen ill in Russia and 14,058 have died, which places it in fourth place worldwide by number of infections , after the United States, Brazil and India,

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