Virologist compared vaccines "CooviVac" and "Sputnik V"

"Sputnik V" vaccine is a vector vaccine.

It is made in the form of an adenovirus ... Our third vaccine ("KoviVac" -

) is a whole-virion vaccine.

This means that the virus is grown in cell culture, accumulates in significant quantities, is concentrated, and is inactivated by a special substance so that these virions cannot multiply, "the 360 ​​Altstein TV channel quotes. 

The specialist emphasized that whole virion vaccines are well known in the world.

The first drug based on this principle was created in China in the spring of 2020.

As previously reported, a vaccine against the CoviVac coronavirus produced by the Chumakov Federal Research and Development Center for Immunobiological Preparations of the Russian Academy of Sciences was registered in Russia.