TIWN
Moscow, Aug 11 (TIWN) In what could alter the course of the Covid-19 pandemic that is still creating mayhem across the world, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday said the country has registered the world's first Covid-19 vaccine that "forms stable cell and antibody immunity".
According to a report in the Tass news agency, Putin said that the vaccine was registered on Tuesday morning.
“As far as I know, this morning for the first time in the world a vaccine against the novel coronavirus infection was registered,” Putin was quoted as saying as he opened a meeting with the state officials. Putin informed that one of his daughters tested the Russian Covid-19 vaccine on herself and she is feeling well. The Russian President has two daughters — Maria who was born in 1985 and Katerina who was born in 1986.
“I know this very well because one of my daughters got vaccinated, so in this sense, she took part in testing,” Putin said.
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