Russian president Vladimir Putin in a video conference meeting at his Moscow residence, Oct. 14, 2020. Putin says a second Covid-19 vaccine has been approved after the US was dubious of the first. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
Covid-19 roundup: Russia approves second vaccine, Putin says; Advocacy groups ask WTO to waive patent rights
Russia has approved a second Covid-19 vaccine, president Vladimir Putin announced Wednesday. Like its first, the country’s new vaccine did not undergo large-scale trials before approval.
Putin said that the vaccine comes from the Siberian biotech Vector State Virology and Biotechnology Center, also a former Soviet bioweapons research lab, according to the Wall Street Journal. The institution plans to begin a 40,000-patient trial soon.
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