RUSSIA TO REGISTER WORLD'S FIRST COVID-19 VACCINE (SPUTNIK V)
Channel: Jonathan Tesoro
Date: 2020-08-16

Russia Has Developed First Covid-19 Vaccine 'Sputnik V', Claims President Putin; Says Daughter Inoculated
 
The head of the country’s RDIF sovereign wealth fund said Russia had already received requests from more than 20 countries for one billion doses of the vaccine.

President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday declared Russia the first country to approve a coronavirus vaccine, but scientists and the World Health Organization (WHO) said it still needed a rigorous safety review. The vaccine has been named 'Sputnik' after the Soviet satellite.

Putin said the vaccine was safe and that one of his own daughters had been inoculated, though clinical trials were not yet complete and final stage testing involving more than 2,000 people was to start only on Wednesday.