russia has a long way to go to finish phase 3... oxford university will be giving out doses in september.. got a boat load of money from trump
In 14 days time...Russia will officially release the world's first covid 19 vaccine...Putin means business...
Reuters reports local regulatory approval could be fast-tracked and be completed as early by sometime
mid-August.
Russia's health ministry has
announced that it expects to begin
mass anti-coronavirus vaccinations by October, with the first rounds to be administered to front line medical workers as well as teachers.
“We plan wider vaccinations for October,” Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said Saturday after he described that Moscow-based state research facility, the Gamaleya Institute, has completed clinical trials of an effective vaccine.
“Now, the package of documents for the procedure of registration [of the vaccine] is being prepared,” Murashko said Saturday in his statement. But international reports have also noted the ambitious timeline is raising questions:
"Yet the speed at which Russia is moving to roll it out has prompted some Western media to question whether Moscow is putting
national prestige before science and safety,"
Reuters comments.
Its earliest rounds of testing was done on soldiers, Russian officials have said.