COVID-19 Vaccine: Russia Successfully Completes Safe Human Trials
"The research has been completed and it proved that the vaccine is safe."
Since nearly seven months, COVID-19 has been wreaking havoc all over the world.
What started in a small market in the city of Wuhan has completely crippled our world while also claiming the lives of millions around the world.
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Since the very beginning, researchers have been striving hard to find a solution to take down the novel coronavirus once and for all. And it looks like that day is finally here.
Reports by Russian news agency TASS has announced that Russia has become the first nation in the world to complete clinical trials of COVID-19 vaccine on humans.
Smolyarchuk, who heads the Center for Clinical Research on Medications at Sechenov University said in a statement, "The research has been completed and it proved that the vaccine is safe. The volunteers will be discharged on July 15 and July 20."
Russian COVID-19 vaccine trials
Alexander Lukashev, the director of the Institute of Medical Parasitology, Tropical, and Vector-Borne Diseases at Sechenov University, said in a statement to Sputnik, ¡°The safety of the vaccine has been confirmed. It corresponds to the safety of those vaccines that are currently on the market.¡±
Russia had permitted clinical trials of two forms of a potential coronavirus vaccine developed by the Gamaleya National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology.
The first vaccine trial was carried out at the Burdenko Military Hospital, wheres the second one was tested by researchers at Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University. Around 20 people volunteered for the injection.
After administering the vaccine, the volunteers were quarantined in the hospital for 28 days. According to a statement from Russian Defence Ministry, earlier, results of the COVID-19 vaccine tests performed on volunteers revealed the development of immunity to COVID-19, but the details for the drug haven¡¯t been revealed as of now.
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Is the COVID-19 vaccine race over?
In case you were wondering this is it and our lives will soon go back to normal, the answer is no. Firstly, this was a Phase I human trial and there are two more stages that remain.
These tests, even though successful, were only conducted with a small group of volunteers. Testing on a larger group is imperative if the vaccine is going to be rolled out to the masses as a silver bullet to stop COVID-19.
