Russian vaccine for COVID-19 in November?

The director general of the State Research Centre for Virology and Biotechnology, Vektor, Rinat Maksybutov, has predicted on August 2nd that the institution it heads will launch the production of the vaccine in November.

“We expect the launch of production in November of this year”, Maksybutov told Rossiya 1 television, according to TASS news agency.

So, by the end of this year and early next year, we can start vaccinating at least the people who are part of dangerous groups and then continue with mass vaculation”.

Russian officials have repeatedly postponed a highly dynamic commitment to finding a pathogenic vaccine that has infected at least 84,000 people and left more than 14,000 patients in Russia dead.

Many foreign experts have voiced doubts about some claims by Russia, while some details that have appeared in the time of pandemic include allegations that Moscow has lied about some aspects of the virus outbreak and the way officials have faced it.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and several other officials have been willing to present any progress in fighting the virus, viewing it as the testament to Russia's position as the world's major player when it comes to science and medicine.

Health Minister Mikhail Murasko has surprised many when he pledged on August 1st that Russia will implement “wide-scale x1> in October.

Speaking to reporters at Nizhny Novgorod, Murasko has said doctors and health workers will take priority in the vaccine programme.

Murasko has given no further details about this process.

During the past week, Reuters news agency has reported that an unidentified source has said Russia's first potential vaccine to the Coronavirus could secure government approval in August.

Russia currently has two vaccines that are testing against COVID-19, which triggers Coronavius -- one of the Vector Institute and another developed by the Moscow-based Gamaley Institute in collaboration with the Ministry of Defence.

However, very few details about these vaccines have been made known to the public.

Meanwhile, over 100 vaccines are being tested worldwide, showing an unprecedented dedication to finding the drug to the killer virus that was originally reported in China late last year.

As a result of it so far, 685,000 people have died, as other billions have been forced to remain in isolation, affecting major economic losses.

Some of the most optimistic researchers in the world have suggested that developing the vaccine for new coronarys could last until the end of this year a very short time compared with years or decades that usually receive one.

The head of the sovereign wealth fund, which is funding the research for the vaccine, Kiril Dmitriyev, has considered the works for the vaccine as “moninik <put-1>, reference to the successful launching of the first world satellite on the part of the former Soviet Union in 1957.

The American have been surprised to hear the noise of Sputnik”, Dmitryec told. CNN.

The same with the vaccine. Russia will be first even there”.

At a hearing session before the U.S. Congress on July 31st, Anthony Fauci, the United States' leading official on infectious diseases, has expressed concern over reports of vaccines to COVID-19, in Russia and China.

“I hope the Chinese and Russians are actually testing the vaccine before they distribute it”, has stated among other things Fauci.