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    WHO wants to review Russian COVID-19 vaccine safety data

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    WHO wants to review Russian COVID-19 vaccine safety data

    Russia's Sputnik V vaccine has been developed by the Gamaleya research institute


    Published:  August 11, 2020 21:53 AFP  and  Compiled by Christian Borbon, Senior Web Editor

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    Geneva: The World Health Organization said any WHO stamp of approval on a COVID-19 vaccine candidate would require a rigorous safety data review, after Russia announced Tuesday it had approved a vaccine. Image Credit: AP
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    President Vladimir Putin said Russia had become the first country to approve a vaccine offering "sustainable immunity" against the new coronavirus. Image Credit: AFP
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    "We are in close contact with the Russian health authorities and discussions are ongoing with respect to possible WHO pre-qualification of the vaccine," the United Nations health agency's spokesman Tarik Jasarevic told reporters in Geneva at an online press briefing. Image Credit: AFP
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    Russia's Sputnik V vaccine has been developed by the Gamaleya research institute in coordination with the country's defence ministry. | An employee works with a coronavirus vaccine at the Nikolai Gamaleya National Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology in Moscow, Russia Image Credit: AP
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    "Pre-qualification of any vaccine includes the rigorous review and assessment of all the required safety and efficacy data. | An employee works with a coronavirus vaccine at the Nikolai Gamaleya National Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology in Moscow, Russia. Image Credit: AP
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    A total of 165 candidate vaccines are being worked on around the world, according to the latest WHO overview produced on July 31. | A colorized scanning electron micrograph of an apoptotic cell (blue/green) heavily infected with SARS-COV-2 virus particles (yellow), isolated from a patient sample, captured at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland Image Credit: AFP
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    Of those, 139 are still in pre-clinical evaluation, while the other 26 are in the various phases of being tested on humans, of which six are the furthest ahead, having reached Phase 3 of clinical evaluation. | A new vaccine is on display at the Nikolai Gamaleya National Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology in Moscow, Russia. Image Credit: AP
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    The Gamaleya candidate being produced in Russia, which is among the 26 being tested on humans, is listed as being in Phase 1. | An employee works with a coronavirus vaccine at the Nikolai Gamaleya National Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology in Moscow, Russia. Image Credit: AP
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    Kirill Dmitriev, the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund which finances the vaccine project, said Phase 3 trials would start on Wednesday, industrial production was expected from September and that 20 countries had pre-ordered more than a billion doses. Image Credit: REUTERS
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    'Stamp of quality': "Every country has national regulatory agencies that approve the use of vaccines or medicines on its territory," Jasarevic explained. Image Credit: AP
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    "WHO has in place a process of pre-qualification for vaccines but also for medicines. Manufacturers ask to have the WHO pre-qualification because it is a sort of stamp of quality. Image Credit: AP
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    "To get this, there is a review and assessment of all required safety and efficacy data that are gathered through the clinical trials. WHO will do this for any candidate vaccine." Image Credit: AP
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    The pandemic has seen an unprecedented mobilisation of funding and research to rush through a vaccine that can protect billions of people worldwide. | An employee shows a new vaccine at the Nikolai Gamaleya National Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology in Moscow, Russia. Image Credit: AP
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    "We are encouraged by the speed by which several candidate vaccines have been developing and as we have been always saying, we hope some of these vaccines will prove to be safe and efficient," said Jasarevic. | An employee works with a coronavirus vaccine at the Nikolai Gamaleya National Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology in Moscow, Russia. Image Credit: AP
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    "Accelerating progress does not mean compromising on safety," he said. Image Credit: AP

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