Russia has granted regulatory approval to a second COVID-19 vaccine, according to its register of authorised medicines.
A delighted President Vladimir Putin announced the news at a government meeting on Wednesday.
“We need to increase production of the first and second vaccine,” Putin said in comments broadcast on state TV.The peptide-based vaccine, named EpiVacCorona, is the second to be licensed for use in Russia. There has been a placebo-controlled trial on 100 volunteers between 18 and 60 in Novosibirsk.That vaccine, based on an adenovirus vector, was also registered before Phase III trials. A trial involving 40,000 participants is now under way in Moscow.
The trial is expected to involve 30,000 volunteers, of whom the first 5,000 will be residents of Siberia, according to the Interfax news agency. Since the start of the pandemic, Russia has recorded more than 1,340,000 infections, fourth in the world behind the United States, India and Brazil.
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