The first vaccine for "Corona" ... 20 countries requested one billion doses of the Russian "Sputnik"
The head of the Russian Sovereign Fund, Kirill Dmitriev, announced Tuesday that twenty foreign countries had previously requested "more than a billion doses" of the Russian vaccine against Covid-19, indicating that the third phase of the tests would start Wednesday.
The head of the fund involved in the development of the vaccine explained that industrial production will start in September. Dmitriev said that the vaccine was called "Sputnik V": "Sputnik" after the name of the Soviet satellite, which was the first spacecraft to be placed in orbit, and "V" represents the first letter of the word vaccine in several foreign languages.
On Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced during a video call with his government ministers that his country had developed "the first" vaccine against the emerging corona virus that provides "sustainable immunity."
"This morning, for the first time in the world, a vaccine against the emerging corona virus was registered" in Russia, Putin said, adding, "I know that it is effective enough, and that it gives sustainable immunity."
The president confirmed that one of his daughters had received the vaccine. "I think at some point she participated in the experiments," he said, noting that her temperature rose a little, "and that was it."
The vaccine will be released for circulation on January 1, 2021, according to the National Medicines Registry of the Ministry of Health for Russian press agencies.
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