Moscow, Sputnik less effective with isolated strain in South Africa

(ANSA) - MOSCOW, APRIL 09 - The Russian Sputnik V vaccine against Covid-19 is less effective in countering the variant of the disease found for the first time in South Africa at the end of 2020, but still has better results than other vaccines: the agency reports Interfax Aleksandr Gintsburg, the head of the Gamaleya Center who developed the Sputnik V vaccine.

   "Speaking of the South African variant - Gintsburg said - Sputnik V antigens are less effective against it, as with any other vaccine. to vaccination with Sputnik V show half the reduction when compared with other vaccines. This - Gintsburg always argues - means that Sputnik V is far preferable in this sense ". (HANDLE).