According to him, "Ukraine will use only those vaccines against COVID-19 that have successfully passed the third phase of clinical trials."
“Therefore, all the rumors and political statements about the state registration of the Russian vaccine candidate in Ukraine do not correspond to reality,” Lyashko said on his Facebook.
Earlier, the head of the political council of the Ukrainian party "Opposition Platform - For Life" Viktor Medvedchuk said that the Kharkov pharmaceutical company "Biolek" submitted documents to the Ukrainian authorities for state registration of the Russian drug "Sputnik V".
On December 23, the Russian Ministry of Health decided not to recruit new volunteers for clinical trials of the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine.
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The Gamalei said that the volunteers participating in the Sputnik V trials will no longer be given a placebo because the drug has proven to be safe.
In November, it was reported that the effectiveness of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19 coronavirus infection according to the results of the first interim analysis of the third phase of clinical trials in Russia was 92%.