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Center Vector to check if EpiVacCorona is effective against Indian virus strain

Center Vector to check if EpiVacCorona is effective against Indian virus strain Earlier, the head of Russia’s consumer rights watchdog Anna Popova said that Russia had requested a sample of the Indian strain of the coronavirus and it would be obtained for examination soon MOSCOW, May 3. /TASS/. Russia’s research center Vector is going to test the effectiveness of its vaccine EpiVacCorona, against the Indian strain of the coronavirus as soon as it becomes available, the center’s deputy chief, Tatyana Nepomnyashchikh, said in the evening news program Vesti on the Rossiya-1 federal television channel. Serums from recovered covid patients effectively neutralize both the reference strain and the British version. As soon as we have the Indian strain, we will make such experiments with it, too, she said.

Russia s COVID-19 defense may depend on mystery vaccine from former bioweapons lab—but does it work? | Science

Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation. When the Kremlin last month said Russian President Vladimir Putin had received the first dose of a homegrown COVID-19 vaccine, a guessing game began. Had he gotten Sputnik V, which Russia had given emergency use authorization a world first in August 2020 after testing in just 79 patients? Or had Putin been given another COVID-19 vaccine that Russia had sanctioned with much less fanfare and with equally sparse evidence that it works? Putin and state officials wouldn’t say, but Russia’s second COVID-19 vaccine, known as EpiVacCorona and first authorized in October 2020, has begun to emerge from the shadow of Sputnik V, bringing controversy of its own. Developed by VECTOR, the famed State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology that once studied bioweapons and now is one of two global repositories of the eradicated smallpox virus, the vaccine is key to the country’s plans to combat the pandemic.

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