Russia first to successfully conduct Corona vaccine clinical trials on humans

Successful clinical testing of the world’s first corona virus vaccine on humans was completed on Sunday (July 13) at Russia’s Sechenov University. The director of the Institute of Translational Medicine and Biotechnology Vadim Tarasov said that the first group of those who have been tested for this vaccine will be discharged from the hospital on Wednesday (July 15) and the second group on July 20.

“Sechenov University has successfully completed the world’s first corona virus vaccine clinical trial on volunteers,” he said. Clinical trials of the vaccine, developed by Russia’s ‘The Gamalei Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology’, began on 18 June.

Alexander Lukashev, director of the Institute of Medical Sciences, Tropical and Infectious Diseases at the University of Sechenov, said that the purpose of the trial is to find out if this vaccine is safe for human health and has been successfully completed. He said that the vaccine has been confirmed to be safe and it is as safe as the vaccines currently available in the market.

Lukashev said that a production strategy is already being set out on a further vaccine development plan, including the status of epidemiology with the virus and the possibility to produce on a large scale. Tarasov said that in the event of an epidemic, Sechinov University has not only served as an educational institution but also as a scientific and technical research center capable of participating in the manufacture of important and complex products such as drugs .”We started working with this vaccine, preclinical studies and protocol development, and clinical trials are underway”.

6615 Corona cases in a day in Russia

On the other hand, there have been 6615 cases of corona virus (Covid 19) infection in the last 24 hours in Russia. According to the Corona Virus Response Center, new cases have come from 83 areas and of these 1491 patients do not have corona symptoms. With these cases, the total number of corona infections in the country has risen to 7,27,162. Russia ranks fourth on the list of countries affected by the corona pandemic worldwide. So far, 11,188 people have lost their lives here due to this disease.