Turkey and Russia to cooperate on development of Covid19 vaccine and conduct joint clinical trials
Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca held a video conference meeting with his Russian counterpart Mikhail Murashko on June 2, 2020. Turkey and Russia agreed Tuesday to cooperate to develop vaccine against the novel coronavirus and conduct joint clinical trials.
Turkey has achieved success in its Covid-19 combat by using different treatments than the World Health Organization, Koca stressed, citing the downtick coronavirus cases and death toll decrease day by day. Koca recalled that Turkey began the normalisation process as of June 1 and nearly 130,000 recovered from Covid-19. Turkey is carrying out its studies on vaccine in 22 centers, the top health official said, adding that four of them have passed to the animal testing stage so far. For his part, Murashko said that they are working on the synthesis of the Covid-19 vaccine, and achieved positive results from animal testings.A scientist examines Covid-19 infected cells during research for a vaccine against the coronavirus disease at a laboratory of BIOCAD biotechnology company in Saint Petersburg, Russia on May 20, 2020. Meanwhile, Koca said on Twitter that Turkey will play an active role in drug development and make processes with related institutions including the Food and Drug Administration and the European Medicines Agency .
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