Putin tests Russian nasal vaccine for covid
Russian President Vladimir Putin says he feels "good" after taking an experimental COVID nasal vaccine earlier this week, while also receiving a booster dose of the experimental "Sputnik V" vaccine.
According to Bloomberg, Putin said late last week that the nasal version of the nasal vaccine is still being tested and has not been approved by regulators in Russia. In a television appearance announcing he had taken the booster injected, Putin said he would also volunteer to participate in nasal vaccine tests. Eventually he experimented with a little bit of everything, at least in the statements.
Denis Logunov, deputy director of the Gamaleya National Research Center, responsible for the development of Sputnik, said taking the two vaccines together would help better protect Putin from upper respiratory tract infections.
The longtime Russian president, 69, said Logunov gave him the nasal version on Monday. Putin told a government meeting that he felt "good" after the boosters and that he had exercised physically on the same day.
Russia in the same communication recalled that it was the first country to approve a COVID vaccine in the summer of 2020, but officials and scientists began to inoculate even before Sputnik V was registered, that is, in spring 2020. Putin, however, has received his first two-dose vaccination only in March of this year.
Gamaleya's Logunov reportedly told Putin that workers at the center had also tried the nasal version of the vaccine, leaving the president to decide whether or not to participate in the trial. "This is off-label and we are testing it personally as usual," he explained to the press in a statement.
Meanwhile, in a meeting with Putin on Wednesday, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said preclinical nasal inoculation tests "showed it was safe and effective" and that phase 1 clinical trials on adult volunteers had been authorized, with the first results expected within 42 days. Obviously the employees had the privilege, so to speak, of an advanced test …
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