As world’s first Covid-19 vaccine, Sputnik V, enters third phase trial, elderly scientists successfully test it on themselves

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With volunteers for Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine showing no major side effects, testing has begun on the elderly. Older workers from the institute which created the formula have successfully trialed it on themselves.

Moscow’s Gamaleya Institute was thrust into the international limelight last month when it was revealed that it had formulated the world’s first registered coronavirus vaccine. According to Alexander Gintsburg, the Institute’s director, between 10 and 15 scientists, aged from 70 to 80 were vaccinated without any complications.

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