Moscow-Sana
The director of the Russian "Gamalia" Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology Research Alexander Gentsburg announced that the process of designing a vaccine against the emerging corona virus began in Russia in mid-February.
Gentsburg explained in a statement quoted by the Russia Today website that work in this field is ongoing and the vaccine is currently subject to pre-clinical tests, and then the center will provide documents to the Russian Ministry of Health to obtain permission to conduct clinical trials on humans, pointing out that the place of injection of the vaccine after its appearance will be in the shoulder The human .
Gentsburg showed that testing the vaccine on small animals, such as mice and other rodents, showed very high immunity, noting that it is not excluded that the process of producing the vaccine will begin during the coming months and before the end of this summer.
The Russian health official pointed out that in the process of producing the vaccine, the same comprehensive platform that was previously used against the Ebola virus and Corona Mers virus will be used.