The defense Ministry has completed clinical trials of a vaccine against coronavirus

The defense Ministry has completed clinical trials of a vaccine against coronavirus.

It is clarified that talking about the joint Center. N. F. Gamalei tests on the basis of military hospital of a name of N. N. Burdenko. Today there was discharged a second group of 20 volunteers.

“The results of the analyses clearly show the production of all the volunteers of the immune response from the vaccination. No side effects, complications, or adverse reactions, complaints the health status of the volunteer at the time of discharge is not revealed”, — noted in the defense Ministry.

All the data will transfer to the national research centre of epidemiology and Microbiology named after N. F. Gamalei. After processing is planned for the state registration of the drug.

Earlier the chief of the 48th Central research Institute of NBC defense forces of the armed forces medical service Colonel Sergey Borisevich said that the high level of antibodies that occurs after the vaccine, will long remain in the body.

“The possibilities of the platform on which this was developed two vaccines against Ebola and a vaccine against middle East respiratory syndrome, will allow for a long time to maintain a protective titer produced after immunization”, — he explained.

The eleventh of March, the who announced the outbreak of a new coronavirus infection COVID-19 pandemic. In the world have identified more than 14 million infections, more than 597 thousand people died.