According to TASS, this was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Health of the republic.
It is clarified that along with the Russian vaccine, a local Chinese drug for COVID-19 was also registered.
"Agree with the proposals of the Ministry of Health and the Agency for the Development of the Pharmaceutical Industry on the state registration of the ZF-US-VAC 2001 and Sputnik V vaccines produced by Jurabek Laboratories (an Uzbek pharmaceutical company. -
RT),
" the document says.
It is noted that at the initial stage, materials for the production of these vaccines will be supplied from China and Russia.
Earlier, the President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed amendments to the legislation giving the employer the right to suspend from work those who refuse to be vaccinated against the coronavirus infection COVID-19.
Vitaly Zverev - microbiologist, scientific director of the State Institution Research Institute of Vaccines and Serums named after V.I.
Mechnikov, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences - in an interview with URA.RU, he emphasized the importance of achieving population immunity to coronavirus in the world.