A Russian vaccine about to be marketed? Russia assured on Monday that it would soon be able to produce hundreds of thousands of doses of vaccine per month against the new coronavirus and "several million" from the beginning of next year.
According to the Russian Minister of Commerce Denis Mantourov, three biomedical companies will be able to produce from September and industrially a vaccine developed by the research laboratory in epidemiology and microbiology Nikolaï Gamaleïa. "According to initial estimates (...) we will be able to provide several hundred thousand doses of vaccine per month from this year, then subsequently up to several million at the start of next year," he said. public agency TASS.
"Sputnik" method
Russia has been working for months, like many other countries in the world, on several vaccine projects against Covid-19. The one developed by the Gamaleïa center is in collaboration with the Ministry of Defense. A second vaccine prototype is being designed at the Vektor State Research Center in Siberia, and the first doses are expected in October, according to the authorities.
Russia, fourth in the world for the number of contaminations after the United States, Brazil and India, declared in April its desire to be among the first countries, if not the very first, to create a vaccine against virus.
However, researchers have expressed concern over the speed of development of Russian vaccines, believing that some steps could be skipped. And this, in order to accelerate the work under pressure of the authorities, who compared this race for the vaccine to the launch by the USSR in 1957 of the first artificial satellite, Sputnik. So far, Russia has not published a detailed study of the results of its trials to establish the effectiveness of the products it says it has developed.
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