Russia on Wednesday said the first batch of its Covid-19 vaccine would be ready in a couple of weeks, and some experts denied that the rapid approval of the drug in Moscow was a "non-expert" security issue.
President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday
that after less than two months of human testing, Russia was the first country
to regulate the COVID-19 vaccine.
The vaccine has not yet completed final
tests. 10% have been successful in clinical trials and some scientists fear
that Moscow will have a national prestige ahead of security.
"It seems that our foreign partners
are realizing the specific competitive advantages of the Russian medicine drug
and are trying to express opinions that our opinion is completely
baseless," Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said on Wednesday.
He said the vaccine, developed by the
Gamalaya Institute in Moscow would be made’ available to the public, including
doctors, on a voluntary basis and would be ready soon.
"The first packages of medical a vaccine against coronavirus infection will arrive in the next two weeks, mainly
to doctors," he said.
Alexander Gintzberg, director of the
Gemelia Institute, said clinical trials would be published’ after its experts
examined Russia.
He said the Russian plan could produce 5
million doses per month from December-January.
Kazakhstan plans to send government
officials to Moscow later this month to discuss the distribution of the
vaccine. (Reporting by Maria Kisliva and Andrei Kuzmin;
READ MORE
0 Comments