He noted that "you can get permission to conduct clinical trials in children after all clinical trials in adults are completed and give a positive effect."
“This is not my point of view, I actually retell the existing law in my own words,” he explained.
“We are now preparing documentation so that within six months, when all the formalities related to studying the experience of using this vaccine in the adult population are carried out, go with our pediatric colleagues to the possibility of vaccinating children already,” Gunzburg added.
Earlier, the head of the Russian Ministry of Health Mikhail Murashko said that registration of the Russian vaccine against coronavirus is expected in August.
As the director of the Gamaleya Center Alexander Gunzburg specified, the coronavirus vaccine is suitable for everyone except for people with severe chronic diseases of the immune system.
The deputy chairman of the State Duma committee on health protection, doctor of medical sciences Nikolay Govorin, in an interview with the FAN, commented on the situation with COVID-19 in Russia.