"One of the two approved at the national level": the WHO representative was vaccinated against COVID-19 with the Russian vaccine

Over the past day, 15,038 new cases of COVID-19 have been detected in Russia.

The largest number was registered in Moscow (2040), St. Petersburg (1127) and the Moscow region (721).

21,961 patients recovered, 553 people died from complications that developed against the background of coronavirus infection and concomitant diseases.

The total number of cases of COVID-19 recorded in the country since the beginning of the pandemic reached 4,027,748. 3,538,422 people recovered, 78,867 died.

The press service of Rospotrebnadzor reported that more than 105.6 million laboratory tests were carried out in the Russian Federation for the presence of coronavirus.

Over 649 thousand people remain under medical supervision.

On the eve of the authorities of Chechnya and Udmurtia, they announced that the mandatory wearing of masks was canceled on the territory of the republics.

The decision of the heads of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation was appreciated by the former chief sanitary doctor, State Duma deputy Gennady Onishchenko.

“In Chechnya and Udmurtia, the authorities of these regions made such a decision not for the company, but proceeding from the real epidemic situation.

All the responsible services that are there, based on the analysis of the incidence rate, the number of patients, I hope, and taking into account selective group studies on the strength of the immune system, made such a recommendation through their regional headquarters to relax, "the NSN quotes him.

At the same time, the representative of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Russia, Melita Vujnovich, said that she had taken one of the two vaccines registered in Russia.

“Vaccinations, like any other medical intervention, are an individual decision of each person.

In accordance with the national COVID-19 vaccination policy in the Russian Federation, the country where I am, I have been vaccinated with one of two nationally approved vaccines.

I feel good.

As for the decisions of other people, this remains at the discretion of each person and refers to confidential and private life, "TASS quotes her.

On August 11, 2020, Russia was the first in the world to register the Sputnik V vaccine against coronavirus infection, which was developed by the specialists of the N.N.

honorary academician N.F.

Gamalei.

The day before, the center reported that almost 7 million doses of the vaccine had already been released into civilian circulation.

More than 1.7 million people received both components of the drug.

On October 14, the vaccine "EpiVacCorona" was registered, created by the State Research Center "Vector" in the Novosibirsk region.

At the same time, the results of phases I-II of clinical trials of the vaccine were sent to foreign scientific journals.

Meanwhile, in Ukraine, at the legislative level, the registration of vaccines against coronavirus infection developed or produced in Russia was banned.

"To decide that the registration of vaccines or other medical immunobiological preparations for the specific prevention of acute respiratory disease COVID-19 caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is subject to obligation for emergency medical use, the development and / or production of which was carried out in a state recognized by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine an aggressor state is prohibited, ”says the document signed by Prime Minister Denis Shmygal.

Earlier, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Kiev did not intend to use Sputnik V, since the effectiveness of the Russian vaccine had allegedly not been proven.

The decision of the Ukrainian leader was appreciated by the press secretary of the President of Russia: "If Ukraine does not want, other countries will get more, which ask for this vaccine and are ready to accept it with gratitude."

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At the same time, The Washington Post published an article about Sputnik V.

In an article, columnist Ishan Tarur noted that if the drug recently "caused ridicule", now the situation around the vaccine is comparable to a "history of global success" and can bring victory to the Kremlin due to "soft power".

This reversal occurred after the publication in The Lancet of a work that confirmed the high safety and efficiency of the Russian development.

“More than a dozen countries have approved the use of the vaccine, and this will continue with the Lancet's approval.

Sputnik V is significantly cheaper than competing Western vaccines and does not require ultra-low storage temperatures, which would complicate distribution of the Pfizer drug in most developing countries, ”the article says.

In addition, The Wall Street Journal reported that experts from the World Health Organization do not rule out that SARS-CoV-2 began to spread in China in October 2019, and not in December.

Specialists of the WHO international mission found that 92 people were hospitalized in the central part of China in October, they had symptoms similar to those that cause COVID-19.

At the same time, the Chinese authorities conducted antibody tests on them, which in most cases gave a negative result.

“More research is needed,” said Peter Ben Embarek, head of the WHO international expert group.

We will remind, the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020 called the situation with the spread of coronavirus infection COVID-19 a pandemic. According to the latest data from Johns Hopkins University, the total number of detected cases of coronavirus infection worldwide has exceeded 107 million, while 2.354 million people have died from complications associated with coronavirus.