In the case of mass vaccination against coronavirus, a turning point in the development of the epidemiological situation in Russia may come as early as spring. As the chief epidemiologist of the Russian Ministry of Health Nikolai Briko told Vzglyad, “the factor of the natural course of the pandemic” also speaks in favor of this scenario.
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The expert recalled that Russian scientists were working on the creation of a vaccine at an accelerated pace, and the government, in the current epidemic situation, allowed an accelerated registration of the drug "Sputnik V".
“However, this was not done at the expense of security. Everything was carefully checked and researched, the vaccine is safe,”the expert emphasized.
“This vaccine did not appear out of nowhere, there were serious, large developments in vaccines in the center. Gamalei. The technology for the development of such a vaccine has been very well developed,”Nikolai Briko noted.
As reported by IA REGNUM, he previously noted that today there is no reason to postpone the registration of a new vaccine against coronavirus infection, developed by the Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology of Gamaleya of the Ministry of Health of Russia.