He said that the COVID-19 vaccine will be delivered to Moscow clinics "somewhere on September 3-4".
“For a start, there will be 9-10 clinics, and then we will bring it to 20, we will work on a relatively small number,” Gunzburg said.
Then, according to him, "there will be several days of screening of those volunteers who have already signed up, they will carry out the necessary studies, analyzes, this will not be a civilian turnover, it will actually be clinical trials."
“And probably somewhere around 5-6, well, on 7 (September. -
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), I think, they will already begin to vaccinate these volunteers directly,” added Gunzburg.
On the eve it was reported that more than 3 thousand volunteers in Moscow applied for participation in a post-registration study of a vaccine against coronavirus infection.
Russian Minister of Health Mikhail Murashko said that mass vaccination against coronavirus infection of people at risk is planned for the period after November-December 2020.
Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor of Moscow State University named after M.V.
Lomonosov, Alexey Agranovsky, in an interview with the FAN, commented on the development of a vaccine against COVID-19 by Russian scientists.