Clinical trials of the updated Sputnik coronavirus vaccine have been completed. This was stated by RIA News Alexander Ginzburg, Director of the Gamaleya Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology.
According to him, Sputnik Light will be able to enter civilian circulation as early as the first ten days of December 10-15.
The expert also announced that the clinical trials of the vaccine have been completed, but the report has not yet been compiled.
November 2, epidemiologist, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences and former head of Rospotrebnadzor Gennady Onishchenko registeredThe number of Covid-19 cases in Russia continues to increase, but there is no reason to impose restrictions. According to him, the increase in cases is natural. He added that with the onset of cold weather, people will start to catch colds, and therefore flu cases will begin to increase.
Anna Popova, also the head of Rospotrebnadzor statedRussians are not offered a vaccine against Covid-19 this season as experts now believe the risk of post-infection complications has decreased, he said. However, Popova recommended vaccination against the flu virus. At the same time, the head of Rospotrebnadzor stated that there was an increase in Covid-19 cases in Russia, which indicates the beginning of a new wave of the epidemic.
Previously at Rospotrebnadzor in the name Russians should urgently get flu vaccinations.