Russia plans to vaccinate most of its population with the Corona vaccine

A Russian health official said that it will be possible to vaccinate most of the population of Russia with a vaccine against the emerging corona virus (Covid 19) within 9-12 months, while the Russian health authorities announced the registration of 6,431 new cases of the virus during the past 24 hours and 150 deaths, which represents an increase in the number Injuries, and for the fifth day in a row, above the level of 6 thousand injuries.

The Russian Operations Center for combating the virus confirmed - in its daily report - that with this new number of infections and deaths, the total number of "Covid-19" cases becomes one million and 122,241 cases, and the death toll from the virus is 19799, with 5750 patients recovering over the past day, for a total 923699 people recovered, and 178,743 active cases remained (which represents an increase of 531 active cases since yesterday, pointing out that 24.2% of new patients had no symptoms, in addition to more than 43.6 million laboratory tests to diagnose corona infections.

The director of the Gamali Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology at the Russian Ministry of Health, Alexander Gintsburg, announced that by next November, 5-6 million doses of the emerging coronavirus vaccine will be produced, and within 9-12 months it will be possible to vaccinate most of Russia's population.

And Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian Fund for Direct Investments, had said earlier that the fund had received requests from more than 20 countries of the world to buy one billion doses of the Russian vaccine against "Covid 19", indicating that Russia had agreed to produce this vaccine in Five countries, capacities available cover the opportunity to produce 500 million doses per year.

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