Moscow-Sana
The Russian "Yuri Gagarin" Astronaut Training Center announced today that astronauts from Mission 65 to the International Space Station have received a vaccine against the emerging corona virus.
TASS quoted the press service of the Training Center as saying today that the main and reserve crew members from Mission 65 to the International Space Station received a dose of the vaccine against the Corona virus, adding that there is another dose of the vaccine that will take place at a later time and that all individuals and employees who have contacted the astronauts will be vaccinated. The space.
The Russian Federal Medical Biomedical Agency had previously indicated that a unit of astronauts and a number of training center employees would be vaccinated.
The center, 20 km from the Russian capital, bears the name of Yuri Gagarin, the first Russian astronaut who invaded space in 1961.
Russia registered the world's first vaccine against Covid 19 disease called "Sputnik V" on the 11th of last August and was developed by the Gamalaya Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology.
