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Overall, both vaccine formulations turned out to be approximately equally effective causing all volunteers to develop antibodies to the coronavirus and teaching T-cells to recognize this threat.

As early as today Moscow residents can apply to participate in the study and be the first to obtain the vaccine. The permission to release batch of Sputnik V vaccine for civilian use may be granted next week

According to the industry and trade minister, the company was chosen at an early stage, when the vaccine was in the works.

The vaccine is designated for the 18-60 age group.

A mere week after Russia registered the world’s first coronavirus vaccine, the ‘Vector’ virology center in Novosibirsk has announced that an entirely different Covid-19 solution is entering the second stage of clinical trials.

Israel is also considering joining the clinical trials of the Russian vaccine.

To boldly go where no vaccine has gone before? A new video promoting Sputnik V, Russia’s vaccine against Covid-19, envisions the drug as its space namesake zapping into oblivion a giant coronavirus engulfing the entire planet.

Valuable experience from working on vaccines for Ebola and MERS made it possible to roll out a drug against the novel coronavirus a lot quicker than many expected, the head of the research center behind Sputnik V told RT.

The Russian Health Ministry announced on Saturday that production of the world’s first registered coronavirus vaccine has begun. It’s been named ‘Sputnik V’ after the famed space satellite, launched by Moscow in 1957.

The Russian vaccine comes as countries around the world are bracing for the possibility of a second wave of coronavirus infections. The initial wave has already infected over 20 million people and claimed the lives of over 736,000, decimating many countries’ economies in the process.

The requests for access to the Russian pharmaceutical development emerged after President Vladimir Putin announced that the first vaccine against the coronavirus had been officially registered in the country after passing trials and that production would soon commence.

The emergence of the first vaccine against the coronavirus infection has sparked interest across the globe, as the drug promises not only an end to COVID-19-related deaths, but also a path to restoring a country’s economy.

“It’s only been tested in several hundreds patients at most…”

Russia is working on an aid program for poor countries to vaccinate against COVID-19, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund Kirill Dmitriev said.

Russian President says his country has developed world’s first coronavirus vaccine, claims his daughter has already received vaccination.