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In two months, there will be preliminary results in the tests of the combination of vaccines against the coronavirus Sputnik V and AstraZeneca, Kirill Dmitryev, executive director of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RFPI), which finances the development of Russian vaccines and manages its foreign production, he told CNBC India television on Wednesday.
In an interview with Russian news agencies, he said that
trials of the two vaccines in Azerbaijan are already in full swing,
and is also scheduled to start in the UAE next week. Dmitrijev previously said that the RFPI could administer Sputnik V for covaccination with the “Oxford vaccine” starting in the middle of the year.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Wednesday that President Vladimir Putin received the first ingredient in a Covid-19 vaccine on Tuesday, and the second in about three weeks.
The spokesperson again did not reveal which of the three domestic vaccines registered in Russia the president had been vaccinated with.
He reiterated that all three were reliable and safe and expressed the hope that the President’s vaccination would be a good example for many. The most common Russian vaccine,
the use of Sputnik V has been approved so far in 56 countries.
In Russia, the number of new confirmed infections rose from 8,861 to 4,483,471 last day, according to official data released on Wednesday, writes MTI.
The daily increase is 0.19 percent and 12.2 percent of new cases are asymptomatic. The number of active infections dropped to 288,852, the number of deaths increased by 401 to 96,219, and the number of recovered increased by 10,355 to 4,098,400. In Russia, more than 118.1 million laboratory tests have been performed since the outbreak began, and about 265,000 have been performed in the last day. 484,760 people are under medical surveillance on suspicion of a new coronavirus infection.
Cyprus has stated that as of April 1, Russian citizens entering the country will no longer have to spend two weeks in quarantine if they have a negative PCR test of no more than three days and if they have not been in contact with a person. infected. Arrivals will be subjected to another laboratory control in the island country, the results of which will be sent by SMS within three hours.
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