Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced that his country’s health ministry has approved the world’s first COVID-19 vaccine, adding that his daughter has already received the shot and is doing fine.
The med, developed by Moscow’s Gamaleya Institute, has been approved by the Russian Health Ministry on Tuesday, Putin revealed
According to him, there is hope that Russia would soon start mass production of the Covid-19 vaccine.
He also disclosed that his own daughter has already been inoculated against the virus. The Russian president said that his daughter had a slight temperature after being given the vaccine, but that it quickly went away.
“One of my daughters got the vaccine. In this sense, she took part in the experiment. After the first vaccination, she had a temperature of 38, the next day – 37 and that was all.”
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DailyNews24 reports that Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova said that the vaccine would be administered to healthcare workers beginning in September. It will be available to the general public on a voluntary basis starting in January.
Corona Virus which was named COVID-19 appeared in China last year, the pandemic has ravaged the world which led o the shut down of many countries and the world economy fell into recession.
The countries most affected by the Pandemic are Italy, Spain, America, in 24 hours more than 1 thousand people use to die.
