According to reports, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that he feels “quite all right” after taking the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Russia, ‘Sputnik V’ and did not experience any side-effects. “I have neither run a high temperature nor experienced any other side effects. I advise everyone to undergo vaccination,” he told a television channel, according to the news agency TASS.
On Friday, it was reported that the Russian defence minister had received a shot of the vaccine developed by Moscow’s Gamaleya research institute for epidemiology and microbiology in coordination with the Russian defence ministry and the official Twitter account of the Russian Embassy in India had uploaded a video in Twitter of Shoigu smiling and receiving the shot of the vaccine.
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The minister said he got coronavirus jab to “dispel the rest of doubts” and to prove that “it is safe, that it is effective and makes life much easier.” The vaccine uses a cold-causing adenovirus, which is then modified and combined with a part of the new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2.
It was approved by Russia last month and has been named “Sputnik V” after the Soviet-era satellite that was the first launched into space in 1957. The “Sputnik-V” vaccine produced an antibody response in all participants in early-stage trials, according to results published on Friday by The Lancet medical journal.
Although concerns were raised about the safety standards of the vaccine, the results of the two trials, conducted in June-July this year and involving 76 participants, showed 100% of participants developing antibodies to the new coronavirus and no serious side effects, The Lancet said.
