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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov explained that Russian President Vladimir Putin was not vaccinated against COVID-19, as the mass vaccination of the Russian population has not yet started and Putin, as head of state, cannot participate as a volunteer in a vaccine trial.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russian President Vladimir Putin still cannot test the developed COVID-19 vaccine on himself, Moskovsky Komsomolets reports.
According to Peskov, the mass vaccination of the Russian population has not yet started and Putin, as head of state, cannot volunteer in a vaccine trial.
As for Peskov himself, he previously reported that he was not going to be vaccinated, as he was already ill and had immunity.
The registration of the world’s first vaccine against coronavirus infection, “Sputnik V,” Putin announced on August 11. According to him, the vaccine, developed at the Gamaleya National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology, is effective, forms stable immunity and has passed all tests. Putin said that one of his daughters had already been vaccinated against coronavirus infection with a Russian-made vaccine. On August 27, the Kremlin chief said that his daughter had received a second vaccination and was doing well.
Several Russian scientists noted that the accelerated approach to vaccine registration is contrary to scientific and ethical standards for drug development… The United States said the Russian vaccine is considered unfinished.
In 14% of the volunteers vaccinated with the adenovirus Sputnik V vaccine, side effects appeared during the investigation.
The second Russian vaccine “EpiVacCorona” was developed by the state scientific center for virology and biotechnology “Vector”. On October 14, Putin announced that he had been searched. Another vaccine is being prepared by the Mikhail Chumakov Federal Scientific Center for Research and Development of Immunobiological Preparations, in September it was allowed to be tested in humans.
