PHILIPPINES: DUTERTE TESTS RUSSIAN VACCINE AND READY TO MASS PRODUCTION
A couple of days after Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte volunteered to take a dose as a Russia-approved vaccine test (after President Vladimir Putin said that one of his two adult daughters received a course of the vaccine during "The experiment"), the Philippines officially agreed to run clinical trials of "Sputnik V" and, if successful, it would be registered for use within the country by April 2021.
A spokesperson for Duterte said Thursday that clinical trials will begin in October and, if successful, the “Sputnik V” vaccine will be registered for public use by April or May 2021, according to the FT .
This, even after Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former FDA chief told CNBC that "I wouldn't take it", referring to the Russian vaccine, explaining that the Russian-favored "adenovirus vector" is similar to CanSino's candidate. , which, Gottlieb said, did not produce much promising data.
However, this technology is also being used by the University of Oxford / AstraZeneca partnership, which recently released some promising data that inspired a market rally. Among other things, there was talk of a possible Russian hacking and the data of Astra Zeneca, but in reality the ows have claimed to have been working on an adenovirus-based vaccine since well before the Covid-19 crisis.
The situation in the Philippines is worrying, with several waves that have followed one another with openings that are too early or superficial and with an economy, also based on foreign tourism, in very serious crisis. As in Brazil there is a need for a vaccine, also to give hope to a physically exhausted population.
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