According to him, Russian President Vladimir Putin was the first to test this type of vaccine.

“In the course of research that is now really starting at the Gamaleya Institute to test the intranasal form of the Sputnik V vaccine,” TASS quotes Gintsburg's statement on the Russia 1 TV channel.

Earlier, the director of the Gamaleya center said that he had been vaccinated with a domestic nasal vaccine against coronavirus infection.