Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that they have taken an experimental nasal vaccine against coronavirus, three days after receiving his booster shot, as Russia faces its worst ever progression of infection and deaths since the pandemic began.
Putin was vaccinated with Russia’s domestically developed COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik V in the spring.
On Sunday, he said he had received a booster reduction of sputnik light, the one-dose version of the jab, and said he wanted to take part in the trial Nose version of Sputnik V,
Denis Logunov, deputy director of Russia’s state-funded Gamalya Center that developed Sputnik V, told Putin on Sunday that the nasal vaccine has yet to be tested on members of the public and is currently being studied “as usual. Kind, off-label, we’re testing it on staff members, surveillance. ,
According to established scientific protocols, the vaccine must go through several testing phases, involving thousands of people, to establish that it is safe and effective to use.
Putin told a government meeting on Wednesday that “just six months after vaccination, my protective (antibody) titers have dropped, and experts have recommended the process of vaccination, which I did.”
He said that he did not experience any unpleasant effects after taking the nasal vaccine.
Russia swelled to its highest level in recent weeks covid-19 boom, with officials regularly recording record-high numbers of new infections and deaths.
The surge came amid low vaccination rates and people’s lax attitude towards taking precautions. Less than 40 percent of Russia’s nearly 146 million people have been fully vaccinated, even though the country approved a home-grown COVID-19 vaccine months before most of the world.
Russia’s state coronavirus task force on Wednesday reported 33,558 new infections and 1,240 deaths. Overall, the task force has reported more than 9.4 million confirmed infections and more than 267,000 Covid-19 deaths, the highest death toll in Europe to date. Some experts believe the true figure is even higher.
The report from Rosstat, Russia’s statistical service, which retrospectively tallied deaths linked to the coronavirus, reveals a much higher death rate. He says that between April 2020 and September this year, 462,000 people have died due to Kovid-19.
Russian officials have said the task force only includes deaths for which Covid-19 was the main cause, and uses data from medical facilities. Rosstat uses broad criteria for counting virus deaths And takes its numbers from the civil registry offices where the death registration is finalized.
Putin was vaccinated with Russia’s domestically developed COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik V in the spring.
On Sunday, he said he had received a booster reduction of sputnik light, the one-dose version of the jab, and said he wanted to take part in the trial Nose version of Sputnik V,
Denis Logunov, deputy director of Russia’s state-funded Gamalya Center that developed Sputnik V, told Putin on Sunday that the nasal vaccine has yet to be tested on members of the public and is currently being studied “as usual. Kind, off-label, we’re testing it on staff members, surveillance. ,
According to established scientific protocols, the vaccine must go through several testing phases, involving thousands of people, to establish that it is safe and effective to use.
Putin told a government meeting on Wednesday that “just six months after vaccination, my protective (antibody) titers have dropped, and experts have recommended the process of vaccination, which I did.”
He said that he did not experience any unpleasant effects after taking the nasal vaccine.
Russia swelled to its highest level in recent weeks covid-19 boom, with officials regularly recording record-high numbers of new infections and deaths.
The surge came amid low vaccination rates and people’s lax attitude towards taking precautions. Less than 40 percent of Russia’s nearly 146 million people have been fully vaccinated, even though the country approved a home-grown COVID-19 vaccine months before most of the world.
Russia’s state coronavirus task force on Wednesday reported 33,558 new infections and 1,240 deaths. Overall, the task force has reported more than 9.4 million confirmed infections and more than 267,000 Covid-19 deaths, the highest death toll in Europe to date. Some experts believe the true figure is even higher.
The report from Rosstat, Russia’s statistical service, which retrospectively tallied deaths linked to the coronavirus, reveals a much higher death rate. He says that between April 2020 and September this year, 462,000 people have died due to Kovid-19.
Russian officials have said the task force only includes deaths for which Covid-19 was the main cause, and uses data from medical facilities. Rosstat uses broad criteria for counting virus deaths And takes its numbers from the civil registry offices where the death registration is finalized.
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