Russia reveals the price of its Corona virus vaccine

A statement published on the Russian vaccine page "Sputnik V" on the social networking site "Twitter" said that the new anti-corona virus (Covid-19) vaccine, consisting of two injections, will cost less than $ 20 per person in global markets, and will be available free of charge to Russian citizens.

And earlier today, Tuesday, the head of the Russian sovereign wealth fund said that the vaccine will be much cheaper than competing vaccines that have a similar level of effectiveness.

And Russia announced today, Tuesday, that its "Sputnik V" vaccine against the emerging corona virus (Covid-19), developed by the Gamalia Research Center in Moscow, is 95% effective.

A statement issued by the center, the Russian Ministry of Health and the Russian sovereign fund involved in developing the vaccine indicated that these are preliminary results of experiments on volunteers 42 days after the first dose was injected, but the number of cases used to calculate the effectiveness rate was not mentioned.

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