"Many countries approve of the use of the vaccine": Russia and Hungary signed a contract for the supply of Sputnik V

Over the past day, 21,513 new cases of coronavirus infection were detected in Russia (in the two days preceding this - 21,887 and 21,152).

The total number of reported cases of COVID-19 in the country since the start of the epidemic has reached 3,677,352.

For the entire time, 3,081,536 patients have recovered (27,318 - over the past day).

From complications that developed against the background of coronavirus infection and concomitant diseases, 68,412 people died (580 - per day).

Over the past 24 hours, most of the new cases of COVID-19 were detected in St. Petersburg (3104), Moscow (3037), Moscow (1142) and Nizhny Novgorod (491) regions.

The press service of Rospotrebnadzor reported that since the beginning of the pandemic in Russia, more than 98.5 million laboratory tests have been carried out to detect COVID-19.

More than 638 thousand people remain under medical supervision due to suspected disease.

For the entire time since the beginning of the COVID-19 epidemic, 907 389 cases of coronavirus have been recorded in Moscow.

763,500 people recovered, 12,831 patients died.

Since January 22, some restrictions imposed due to the spread of coronavirus infection have been eased in the capital.

In particular, colleges, institutions of additional education, and sports schools are returning to their normal working hours.

At the same time, the requirement to transfer to telecommuting at least 30% of employees of the capital's enterprises and a home regime for elderly Muscovites and people suffering from chronic diseases.

"Sputnik V"

On Friday, January 22, the Minister of Health of Russia Mikhail Murashko met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Hungary Peter Siyarto.

As a result, a contract was signed for the supply of the Sputnik V vaccine to Hungary.

“The Russian Direct Investment Fund and the Hungarian side have signed a contract for the supply of vaccines to Hungary,” he said. 

Murashko added that many countries around the world “actively approve of the use of the Russian vaccine,” and cooperation with the World Health Organization continues.

On the eve of Hungary and the United Arab Emirates registered the Russian vaccine "Sputnik V".

As noted by Kirill Dmitriev, general director of RDIF, Hungary became the first EU state to register Sputnik V.

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“So we see that the vaccine has been approved not only in the Middle East, Latin America, Africa, Asia, but also in Europe.

Of course, Russia here acts as a partner with a large number of countries in both production and supply, ”Dmitriev said in an interview with RT.

According to Dmitriev, the decision to register the drug in the UAE was made after Sputnik's approval in more than ten other countries - not only on the basis of clinical trials in Russia, but also on the basis of the data that the UAE received as a result of Sputnik clinical trials. in the UAE.

“Secondly, these tests have shown both the very high safety of Sputnik and very high efficiency,” Dmitriev said.

In addition, on January 21, Argentine President Alberto Fernandez was vaccinated against COVID-19 with the Russian vaccine.

On December 29, 2020, a vaccination campaign was launched in this Latin American state, which is carried out by the Sputnik V drug.

Recall that on August 11, Russia was the first in the world to register the Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19.

It was developed by the National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology named after Honorary Academician N.F.

Gamalei.

The effectiveness of the drug after 21 days from the moment the volunteers received the first component of the vaccine was 91.4%.

There were no significant side effects in the volunteers participating in the study.

At the same time, against severe cases of the course of the disease with coronavirus, the effectiveness of the drug was 100%.

Sputnik V is also effective against the new SARS-CoV-2 strain discovered in Europe in December.

The Sputnik V vaccine, in addition to Russia, Hungary, the United Arab Emirates and Argentina, has also received approval for use in Bolivia, Serbia, Algeria, Venezuela, Paraguay, Turkmenistan and Belarus.

In mid-January, during a meeting with the government, President Vladimir Putin called the Russian vaccine against coronavirus infection the best in the world.

“The Russian vaccine is already quite obvious, we thought so before, but now practice shows - I think that it is generally the best in the world,” Putin said.