Photo credit: M. Mishin /Press Service of the Mayor and the Moscow Government (CC BY 4.0)
The 3rd Russian vaccine against coronavirus infection has been approved in Russia, according to the website of the Russian Government. According to the head of the Government of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mishustin, the registration process for the KoviVac drug has been completed. It was developed by the Chumakov Center. The prime minister promised that at least 120,000 doses of the vaccine would be produced in the next two to three weeks.
Mikhail Mishustin noted that today Russia is the only country that has three of its own vaccines against coronavirus.
Director of the Chumakov Center Aydar Ishmukhametov expressed hope that KoviVak will enter the international market in the future. By the end of the year, it is planned to produce ten million doses of the vaccine.
Aydar Ishmukhametov specified that KoviVak, unlike Sputnik V and EpiVacCorona, is a classic whole-virion vaccine, that is, it contains a whole, but killed virus, and not its parts. Now the drug is planned to be tested on 3,000 volunteers.
The drug can be stored at temperatures from 2 to 8 degrees Celsius. The existence of several vaccines against coronavirus provides doctors with "the opportunity to maneuver," said Anna Popova, head of Rospotrebnadzor. Physicians can use whichever vaccine is best for the patient in each case.
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