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Two vaccines against coronavirus are planned to be registered by the Russian authorities in early autumn, TASS reports.
According to Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova, the leaders in their development are the Gamalei Institute and the Vector center. It is planned to register the vaccines in August.
The Gamalei Institute is working on a vaccine together with the 48th institute of the Russian defense department. They will conduct clinical trials in the summer. The developers suggest that the industrial production phase will begin in September.
Earlier, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Gunzburg, the head of the Gamalei Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology, expressed the hope that the vaccine would be ready for launch in mass production in late summer. Perhaps, the academician added, the first stage of vaccination would unfold in autumn.
The Vector center of Virology and Biotechnology noted that the clinical trials of their vaccines were to be completed in early autumn. According to Rinat Maksyutov, who heads the center, trials should begin in June.
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