The first coronavirus vaccine in the world has been registered in Russia, the country’s President Vladimir Putin announced on Tuesday.
“MY DAUGHTER HAS TAKEN PART IN THE EXPERIMENT”
The vaccine, developed by the Gamaleya National Research Center, has an official registration with the Russian Health Ministry, Putin told a meeting with members of the government in Moscow.
Putin added that the vaccine trials yielded positive results, with all volunteers having built up immunity to the coronavirus.
“I know it has proven efficient and forms a stable immunity, and I would like to repeat that it has passed all the necessary tests,” he said. “We must be grateful to those who made that first step very important for our country and the entire world.”
Putin added that one of his two adult daughters has received two shots of the vaccine. “She has taken part in the experiment,” Putin said.
The vaccine is based on adenovirus and contains dead coronavirus particles which cannot multiply and are therefore safe, said Alexander Gintzburg, head of the center.
However, it can provoke an immune response such as high temperature to the introduction of foreign substances, he added.