Putin says Russia has registered "world first" coronavirus vaccine

[New World Explorer]

Russia has officially registered a coronavirus vaccine developed by the Moscow-based Gamaleya Institute, President Vladimir Putin said on Russian state TV on Tuesday.

Speaking in a live teleconference with his cabinet ministers, Putin said the vaccine had gone through all the necessary checks.

"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.

The Russian President 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."

Reports about Russia's vaccine have come amid concerns about its safety, effectiveness and allegations that the country has cut essential corners in its development. 

Russian officials told CNN previously that crucial Phase III trials would take place after state registration of the vaccine. 

Russia has released no scientific data on its vaccine testing and CNN is unable to verify its claimed safety or effectiveness.  

Critics say the country's push for a vaccine comes amid political pressure from the Kremlin, which is keen to portray Russia as a global scientific force.https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-08-11-20-intl/index.html

[campanula]

I'm not tended to believe a one word of that person. Nope.

 

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Putin said the vaccine had gone through all the necessary checks.

 

Edited August 11, 2020 by campanula

[Dages]

As far as they don't test it on our Friends there...

[shali]

I was afraid of that too David.  All I could think of is the Russian authorities infecting prison populations with the virus and then testing these vaccines on them.

[Thesauron]

Politiks. Coming from the mouth of an autocrat.

[Bob]

5 hours ago, New World Explorer said:

Reports about Russia's vaccine have come amid concerns about its safety, effectiveness and allegations that the country has cut essential corners in its development. 

This is the same accusation made here. The only "corner" that was cut here was the funding and manufacturing of hundreds of millions of doses of a potential vaccine. That has been sped up.

 

That being said, Russia is cutting corners. Just wanted to point that out.