{"id":105375,"date":"2020-08-11T15:25:54","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T22:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=105375"},"modified":"2020-08-11T15:25:54","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T22:25:54","slug":"russia-announces-worlds-first-coronavirus-vaccine-putins-daughter-vaccinated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/08\/11\/russia-announces-worlds-first-coronavirus-vaccine-putins-daughter-vaccinated\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia announces \u201cworld\u2019s first\u201d coronavirus vaccine; Putin\u2019s daughter vaccinated"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Russia has registered the world\u2019s first coronavirus vaccine early Tuesday, President Vladimir Putin announced amid widespread concerns about the rapidly developed vaccine\u2019s safety.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The state-run Gamaleya research institute last week launched Phase III trials of the Covid-19 vaccine involving thousands of volunteers. The Health Ministry has said it plans to begin mass production of the vaccine as soon as next month and launch a mass vaccination drive in October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0d9a\u0ddc\u0dbb\u0ddd\u0db1\u0dcf \u0dc0\u0dc3\u0d82\u0d9c\u0dad\u0dba\u0da7 \u0db4\u0dc5\u0db8\u0dd4 \u0dc0\u0dd2\u0dc3\u0db3\u0dd4\u0db8 \u0dbb\u0dd4\u0dc3\u0dd2\u0dba\u0dcf\u0dc0\u0dd9\u0db1\u0dca...\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TlGODBh0t4w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This morning, for the first time in the world, a vaccine against the new coronavirus was registered,\u201d Putin said in a televised cabinet session broadcast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I know that it\u2019s effective and forms sustainable immunity,\u201d he said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Putin said one of his daughters, whose identity he has neither confirmed nor denied to date, has already taken the vaccine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Experts, including an industry body representing multinationals that conduct clinical trials in Russia, have called the vaccine\u2019s swift registration without completing Phase III trials a Pandora\u2019s box.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Russia has the world\u2019s fourth-highest Covid-19 caseload with almost 900,000 infections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gamaleya\u2019s vaccine is a so-called viral vector vaccine, meaning it employs another virus to carry the DNA encoding the necessary immune response into cells. It is based on the adenovirus, the common cold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: The Moscow Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Russia has registered the world\u2019s first coronavirus vaccine early Tuesday, President Vladimir Putin announced amid widespread concerns about the rapidly developed vaccine\u2019s safety.&nbsp; The state-run Gamaleya research institute last week launched Phase III trials of the Covid-19 vaccine involving thousands of volunteers. The Health Ministry has said it plans to begin mass production [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}