Russia may trial coronavirus vaccine combining Sputnik, Chinese shots
- Trials for the jab could be conducted in Arab countries, the head of Russia’s RDIF sovereign wealth fund said
- President Putin said he had ordered authorities to prepare way for foreigners to get vaccinated in Russia for a fee
“These are the big manufacturers and it may be that we will start the first trials in Arab countries combining Sputnik with a number of Chinese vaccines,” he was quoted as saying.
Dmitriev also said Russia expects the World Health Organization (WHO) to approve the Sputnik V vaccine within two months.
He said the European Medicines Agency (EMA) which is also reviewing Sputnik V “was provided with all basic existing information, there is no critical remarks for now at all”.
Dmitriev did not say when EMA could make its decision, redirecting questions to the agency and said that WHO did not have significant critical remarks either, based on a couple of inspections.
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Dmitriev declined to specify which production sites were visited during the review.