The first coronavirus vaccine in the world has been registered in Russia, Vladimir Putin the country’s President announced on State TV on Tuesday.
While speaking with members of the government in Moscow, President Putin said that The long awaited vaccine which was developed by the Gamaleya National Research Center, has gone through all the necessary checks, it has also been officially registered with the Russian Health Ministry.
“A vaccine against coronavirus has been registered for the first time in the world this morning,” Putin said, adding: “I know that it works quite effectively, it forms a stable immunity.”
“So we’re the first to have registered. I hope our foreign colleagues’ work will move as well, and a lot of products will appear on an international market that could be used,” Putin said.
Putin added that the vaccine trials yielded positive results, with all volunteers having built up immunity to the coronavirus.
The vaccine is based on adenovirus and contains dead COVID-19 particles which cannot multiply and are therefore safe, said Alexander Gintzburg, head of the center.
However, it can provoke an immune response such as high temperature to the introduction of foreign substances, he added.
Putin also revealed that one of his daughters has taken the vaccine; he said she had a slightly higher temperature following the injections, but that she now feels better.
“I know this very well too, as one of my daughters has been inoculated with the vaccine,” he said.
“I think that this way she participated in the experiment. After the first injection her temperature was 38 [degrees Celsius], the next day 37-something and that’s it. After the second injection the temperature also got a bit higher but that’s it, then it went back down. Now she feels well.”
Critics has accused Russia of trying to push for a non proven vaccine on the world in other to portray Russia as a global scientific force.
