MOSCOW, Russia.(News of the South)-Russia has recently registered the world’s first Covid-19 vaccine marking a milestone in the global race to find a vaccine against the novel Coronavirus, President Vladimir Putin has revealed.
This however raises safety concerns in the West over the country’s accelerated clinical evaluations.
The Covid-19 pandemic has killed more than 700,000 people worldwide.
The Russian officials compared recent registrations or rather Tuesday’s registration of the vaccine with its health ministry to the Cold War-era space race.
Moscow hopes the landmark event will return some prestige to the country’s proud scientific legacy inherited from the Soviet Union.
Scientists at the Moscow-based Gamaleya Institute have employed military testing, accelerated clinical evaluations and shortened test trial times in an attempt to be the first with the vaccine, which Russia hopes to use in a massive vaccination rollout at home and export abroad.
“We should be grateful to those who have taken this first step, which is very important for our country and the whole world,” Mr. Putin said.
“I hope we can start a massive release of this vaccine soon,” he added revealing that one of his daughters had taken the vaccine.
The conditions of the vaccine’s development have however raised concerns in Moscow and in the West over the safety of the vaccine and fears that the Kremlin is sacrificing the safety of its citizens for prestige.
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