Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine was “more than 90%” effective, according to Russia’s health ministry.
A representative of Russia’s health ministry on Monday said that Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine was “more than 90%” effective.
This, after Pfizer and BioNTech announced that a jointly-developed COVID-19 vaccine was “90% effective” in its ongoing Phase 3 trials.
In a statement, Oksana Drapkina — director of a research institute under the health ministry — said that they’re responsible for monitoring the effectiveness of Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine among citizens who had received it as part of its mass vaccination program.
“Based on our observations, its effectiveness is also more than 90%. The appearance of another effective vaccine — this is good news for everyone,” said Drapkina.
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Russia was rolling out the COVID-19 vaccine for domestic use despite the fact that late-stage trials haven’t yet finished.
Alexander Gintsburg, the director of Moscow’s Gamaleya Institute which developed the Russian COVID-19 vaccine candidate, earlier on Monday said that he welcomed the Pfizer news.
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Gintsburg also said that they expected to publish interim results of the post-registration trial of Sputnik V vaccine, the so-called Phase III trials, in the near future.
“I am sure that its effectiveness level will also be high,” Gintsburg said.
Russia was gearing up to publish the preliminary results of an ongoing Phase 3 human trial this month, adding that it’s testing the Sputnik V vaccine on 40,000 people in Moscow.
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