Moscow: First coronavirus vaccine put into general circulation

Moscow (ST): The Russian Ministry of Health said that it  put the first batch of coronavirus vaccine into general circulation.

Russia Today quoted the Ministry’s press office as saying in a statement that the first coronavirus vaccine had undergone the required laboratory and epidemiological  tests and it was put into general circulation , adding that it will reach all Russian territories as soon as possible.

A number of states including Russia, the US, Britain, France and China are running a race for finding an effective vaccine for the Coronavirus. Russia is considered the first state which invented the vaccine and called it Sputnik V after the first satellite launched by the Soviet Union in 1957.

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