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The end of the third phase of clinical trials of the Russian Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine is scheduled for December 2021, Ukraine’s medical director Viktor Lyashko noted. He stressed that Ukraine will only use those COVID-19 vaccines that have successfully passed the third phase of testing.
Ukraine will register only those coronavirus vaccines that have successfully passed the third phase of clinical trials. This was stated by Ukraine’s Chief Medical Officer, Deputy Minister of Health Viktor Lyashko on Facebook on January 2.
His statement was made in the context of the statements of the People’s Deputy of the Opposition Platform – For Life Viktor Medvedchuk that the Kharkiv Biolek pharmaceutical company submitted on December 30 documents for the registration in Ukraine of the Russian vaccine against COVID-19 Sputnik V.
Ukraine will use only those COVID-19 vaccines that have successfully passed the third phase of clinical trials. Therefore, all the rumors and political statements about the state registration of the Russian vaccine candidate in Ukraine do not correspond to reality. Today there are already vaccines against COVID-19 that are allowed. For such registration, interim reports from clinical trials were used. Based on this, Ukraine decided on the possibility of registering vaccines registered in countries with a strict regulatory policy. I emphasize that only under these conditions we will allow vaccines to use “, – wrote Lyashko.
He noted that the end of the third phase of trials of the Russian vaccine is scheduled for December 2021.
An outbreak of coronavirus infection began in late 2019 in China. March 11, 2020 World Health Organization declared the spread of the coronavirus a pandemic.
On August 11, 2020, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the registration of the “world’s first vaccine” against the coronavirus infection “Sputnik V” (“Gam-COVID-Vac”). According to him, the vaccine is effective, forms stable immunity and has passed all tests. Putin said one of his daughters received two vaccinations and was feeling fine. At the same time, the Russian president himself was not vaccinated; As head of state, he cannot volunteer in a vaccine trial, explained Dmitry Peskov, the Russian leader’s press secretary.
The Russian vaccine was widely criticized as it was registered before the third phase of clinical trials. Phase 3 trials are critical to testing the readiness of a vaccine for widespread distribution, writes National Geographic. Several Russian scientists have pointed out that the accelerated approach to vaccine registration is contrary to scientific and ethical standards for drug development.
The vaccinated Russians complained of various side effects: fever, loss of smell, high blood pressure.
The people’s deputy of the Servant of the People, the head of the nation’s parliamentary health commission, Mikhail Radutsky, said on January 2 that, according to Ukrainian law, vaccines that do not have the qualifications of the World Health Organization and countries with strict regulatory policies cannot register in the country.
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