He said this during a speech in the relevant committee of the State Duma.
According to him, to create the vaccine itself in the presence of a “certain biotechnological platform” is not difficult. Kraeva specified that it takes two to five months to create a vaccine design.
The deputy head of the Ministry of Health noted that "the most difficult thing is to test this vaccine, and for this it is necessary to work it out on cells, on small animals, preclinical studies on large animals and clinical studies."
“But to do this, you need a live native virus. Unfortunately, at the moment we don’t have this very important living virus, ”Interfax quotes him.
Earlier, Chinese Ambassador to Moscow Zhang Hanhui said that Chinese experts have isolated strains of the new coronavirus, on the basis of which a vaccine can be developed.
At the same time, Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova noted that the Chinese side has still not transmitted a strain of the new coronavirus to Russia.