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He recalled that the first Russian vaccine had been developed on a platform (human adenovirus) that had already been used for other vaccines and that had been shown to be safe. However, she stressed the importance of thorough testing. He said that Sputnik V will be produced in parallel by three large companies, as scheduled.
Memorable, Russia introduced the vaccine by skipping the key Phase III. research. After that, only one vaccine can be authorized. The most promising candidate vaccines are Phase III. They are in the investigation stage, the Russians were not among them when President Vladimir Putin announced that they were finished.
Moscow Deputy Mayor Anastasia Rakova said volunteers are being monitored from a telemedicine center using a phone app or digital bracelet to make video calls and enter health data.
Medical Director Anna Popova, head of Russia’s Consumer Protection Inspectorate (Rospotrebnadzor), told a meeting at the Russian Academy of Sciences on Tuesday that 17 institutes in Russia are currently working on the development of 26 vaccines against Covid- 19. She said that in all new confirmed coronavirus infections, the disease develops asymptomatically or with very mild symptoms.
In Russia, the number of new confirmed coronavirus infections rose from 5,529 to 1,073,849 in the last day, according to official figures released Tuesday. In Moscow, 730 people have been diagnosed in the last 24 hours, the highest number in the last two and a half months. On June 30, the virus was detected in 745 people. The current rate of spread of the infection is 0.5 percent and 22.5 percent of new cases are asymptomatic.
Russia ranks fourth in the world in terms of the number of new coronavirus infections detected, after the United States (6,555,247), India (4,930,236) and Brazil (4,345,610). The number of active cases dropped from 226 to 170,759. The number of deaths increased by 150 to 18,785 and the number of recoveries increased by 5,605 to 884,305.
Vyacheslav Vologyin, speaker of the lower house of the Russian parliament, said in a television interview on Tuesday that around 50 MPs have suffered from Covid-19 disease so far. More than 41.1 million laboratory tests have been performed in the country since the outbreak began, and about 218,000 have been performed last day. 218,387 people are under medical surveillance on suspicion of coronavirus infection.
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