Moscow-Sana
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced today the registration of the world's first vaccine against the emerging corona virus (Covid 19).
Sputnik news agency quoted Putin as saying during a meeting with members of the government: “I was informed today morning about the registration of the world's first vaccine against the emerging corona virus .. I hope that we will be able to start producing large quantities of it in the near future, and this is very important.”
Putin thanked all the cadres who worked to launch the vaccine, describing this achievement as "a very important step for the world."
Putin added, "I know that it works very effectively and forms stable immunity ... and I repeat that it has passed all the necessary tests," expressing hope that other countries will go ahead with their research so that there are many products that can be used in the global market for medicines and vaccines.
Putin stressed that the vaccination process with the vaccine will be available to all Russian citizens soon and without financial compensation, and it will be in stages, starting with medical teams fighting against the virus on the front lines, reaching the threatened elderly and finally to ordinary citizens, revealing that one of his daughters has received this vaccine.
In this context, the Russian Operations Center for Coronavirus announced today that 4,945 new infections were recorded in Russia during the past 24 hours, bringing the number of infected people to 897,599 and the death of 130 others as a result of the disease, bringing the number of deaths to 15,131 cases.
According to the latest figures and official statistics, 6,494 people recovered during the past day, bringing the total of those recovered to 703,175 people.