Russia is the first country in the world to have 3 COVID-19 vaccines

Russia has 3 COVID-19 vaccines – Photo: REUTERS

The new vaccine is called Covi-Vac, produced by the Chumakov Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences. According to Reuters, Russia has approved the vaccine for home use, although it has not yet had a large-scale clinical trial.

“Russia is the only country that has 3 COVID-19 vaccines,” said Russian Prime Minister Mishustin.

Unlike the Sputnik V vaccine, which uses a modified harmless cold virus to trick the body into producing antigens for the immune system, the Covi-Vac vaccine is made from a corona virus that has been damaged, inactivating or killing regeneration .

“The vaccine we have developed reflects the entire history of Russian and world vaccine science,” said Ishmukhametov, director of the Aidar Center in Chumakov.

Covi-Vac includes 2 doses, injected 14 days apart. It is transported and stored at the normal temperature of the refrigerator, between 2 and 8⁰C. In March, Russia will distribute the first 120,000 doses of Covi-Vac.

Previously, Russia approved two COVID-19 vaccines, including Sputnik V, developed by the Gamaleya Institute in Moscow, and the EpiVacCorona developed by the Vector Center, in the same way by licensing ahead of results.

The short-term approval of the vaccine has raised concerns for some Western scientists, but the results of tests conducted after mass vaccination showed that the vaccine was effective.

Sputnik V was approved in August 2020 and the final phase testing begins a month later. Mass vaccination began in December 2020, and preliminary test results thereafter showed the vaccine was 91.4% effective.

Since then, more than 2 million Russians have received the first dose (of the two injections) of the Sputnik V vaccine, Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said on February 10.

The Chumakov Center, where the Covi-Vac vaccine was developed, was founded in 1955 by Mikhail Chumakov in Saint Petersburg. St. Petersburg. The Center is famous for collaborating with American scientist Albert Sabin during the Cold War, which led to the production of the polio vaccine that is widely used today.

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