MOSCOW (AFP) - Russia hopes to complete trials of a coronavirus vaccine in August and produce 200 million doses with foreign partners by the end of the year, the head of its sovereign wealth fund said Monday (July 20).. Read more at straitstimes.com.
MOSCOW - Russia hopes to complete trials of a coronavirus vaccine in August and produce 200 million doses with foreign partners by the end of the year, the head of its sovereign wealth fund said Monday .
RDIF chief executive Kirill Dmitriev said he hoped the project would receive permission next month to begin production, after the first phase of a vaccine trial was completed last week. The Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology's vaccine is undergoing trials on military and civilian volunteers.Dmitriev said the second phase of the trial will be over by August 3.
He said that adenoviral vector-based vaccines had been developed since the 1980s and are generally safe.
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