Tag: Sputnik V

Categories Latin America

Maduro mulls giving Russian Covid-19 vaccine to over 14k candidates in Venezuela’s election to facilitate safe campaigning

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As soon as Russia’s ‘Sputnik V’ coronavirus vaccine arrives in Venezuela for clinical trials, it may be used to immunize around 14,400 candidates in the upcoming parliamentary election, the country’s president said on Tuesday. … Read More >Maduro mulls giving Russian Covid-19 vaccine to over 14k candidates in Venezuela’s election to facilitate safe campaigning

Categories Asia & Pacific

Decision Soon on Sputnik V Phase 3 Trial, Manufacturing in India: Top Official

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Russia is the first country to come out with a vaccine for COVID-19. The vaccine, named after the world’s first human-built satellite – Sputnik-V, underwent two trials and all participants developed antibodies to the novel coronavirus with no serious side effects. … Read More >Decision Soon on Sputnik V Phase 3 Trial, Manufacturing in India: Top Official

Categories Russia

Access to Covid-19 vaccine means Russia could totally defeat coronavirus by next summer, according to creator of Sputnik V

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If mass vaccination goes to plan, Russia will have seen an end to Covid-19 by next summer, says Alexander Gintsburg, the director of Moscow’s Gamaleya Center, where the groundbreaking Russian coronavirus vaccine was developed. … Read More >Access to Covid-19 vaccine means Russia could totally defeat coronavirus by next summer, according to creator of Sputnik V

Categories Russia

Russia’s Covid-19 vaccine effective against any dose of virus, says developer, mass vaccination to start around New Year

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The leader of the team behind Sputnik V said on Friday that the immune response documented among volunteers taking the world’s first registered coronavirus vaccine is sufficient to fight any level of Covid-19 infection. … Read More >Russia’s Covid-19 vaccine effective against any dose of virus, says developer, mass vaccination to start around New Year

Categories Russia

Respected British medical journal The Lancet publishes study showing Russia’s ‘Sputnik V’ Covid-19 vaccine to be 100% effective

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The world’s first registered Covid-19 vaccine successfully produced antibodies in all 76 participants in early-stage trials, according to a study published in The Lancet, one of the oldest and best-respected medical journals. … Read More >Respected British medical journal The Lancet publishes study showing Russia’s ‘Sputnik V’ Covid-19 vaccine to be 100% effective

Categories Russia

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

Categories Op-ed

As Bolsonaro Loses Anti-COVID Fight, Brazil’s Northeast Takes Action & Signals Interest in Sputnik V

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While COVID-19 is raging across Brazil, the country’s regions are taking matters into their own hands, says Brazilian scholar Gustavo Guerreiro, referring to nine northeast states who united their resources to fight against the pandemic. Following in the footsteps of Parana, Brazil’s northeast has signalled interest in Russia’s vaccine, he notes. … Read More >As Bolsonaro Loses Anti-COVID Fight, Brazil’s Northeast Takes Action & Signals Interest in Sputnik V