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Sputnik Vaccines ‘Reliable as Kalashnikovs’

President Vladimir Putin has heralded Russia’s vaccine offering as “reliable as a Kalashnikov assault rifle”, says an article on BBC.

Sputnik light

The comment was made during a video conference on Thursday with Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova. It came as the country’s health officials registered a single-dose version of the Sputnik V vaccine on Thursday, dubbed Sputnik Light.

Mr. Putin’s comparison referenced the Soviet Union-era weapon that remains popular and widely used still today.

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Indian Covid Vaccine Shows 78% Efficacy Against Most Variants

Indian Covid vaccine shot showed 78% efficacy against severe reactions and most of the Covid variants, says an article published in Bloomberg Quint.

Covaxin

Covaxin, a two-shot injection that uses an inactivated or dead form the virus, also showed 100% efficacy at preventing severe symptoms and hospitalizations against the coronavirus. The vaccine was made at Bharat Biotech International Ltd. and the Indian Council for Medical Research.

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Global COVID Infections Near 140 Million

The global Covid death toll has passed 2.97 million. Meanwhile, infections have passed 138 million world wide, according to analysts at Johns Hopkins University, reports, Pharmaceutical Technology.

Origin of the virus

US Covid -19 infections exceed 31.4 million. Meanwhile, the US coronavirus death toll is more than 564,000 according to analysts at Johns Hopkins University.

US spy agencies have yet to determine the source of the virus that causes Covid-19, top intelligence officials told the Senate...

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Sputnik V Vaccine Ineffective For Covid-19

Sputnik V vaccine is no match for a fast-spreading variant such a Covid-19, says an article on Nature.

Ineffective against SARS-CoV-2

Many vaccines — including Sputnik V, developed by the Gamelaya National Centre for Epidemiology and Microbiology in Moscow — trigger the production of antibodies targeting the SARS-CoV-2 protein called spike, which the virus uses to infect host cells. Scientists worry that the vaccines might be ineffective against SARS-CoV-2 variants with mutations in the...

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Tests Conclude Sputnik V Vaccine To Be 91.6% Effective

After criticism last year for an early rollout, Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine is 91.6% effective against symptomatic Covid-19 and 100% effective against severe and moderate disease, according to an interim analysis of the vaccine’s Phase 3 trial results, reports CNN News.

Results published in The Lancet

The preliminary findings were published in The Lancet on Tuesday and are based on data gathered from 19,866 participants, of which around three-quarters (14,964) received two doses of the vaccine and...

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Forwarders Feel The Pain As Vaccine Distribution Begins

Forwarders are beginning to feel the pain as vaccine distribution begins – they are getting bumped from booked flights, says an article published in the loadstar.

The distribution of Covid-19 vaccines is going to be complex, with strings of networks reaching around the world, and depending on manufacturing sites and government orders.  Along with Russian vaccine Sputnik V, there are five potential Chinese-made vaccines as well as the much-publicized Moderna and AstraZeneca options.

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Russian COVID Vaccine ‘Sputnik V’ Proves Safety in Lancet Study

A handout photo released by Russian Healthcare ministry (Minzdrav) shows containers with a newly registered vaccine against coronavirus in Moscow, Russia.

According to a CNN report,  Covid-19 vaccine developed and tested in Russia generated neutralizing antibodies in dozens of study subjects, and while the vaccine often caused side effects such as fever, those side effects were mostly mild, says data published Friday in the medical journal The Lancet.

Russia drew criticism when it announced the world’s first approved coronavirus vaccine for public use in August — even before crucial Phase 3 trials had been completed.

Results Show Natural Infection...

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