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Russia's COVID-19 vaccine to enter production, deliver first batch of doses in two weeks
Tech2 News Staff •The vaccine is given in two doses and will help people develop immunity to the virus for at least two years.
Far from awe-inspiring Sputnik launch in 1957, Russia's COVID-19 vaccine met with concerns about science, safety
•Sputnik V underscores how, like in the space race, competition to have the first vaccine is about international rivalries as much as science.
Russia approves its first Coronavirus vaccine before even completing its clinical trials
•The Gamaleya Institute developed the Russian vaccine using a human cell line first cultured in 1973 — the same line used in the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.
Putin announces first 'registered' COVID-19 vaccine from Russia's Gamaleya Institute; his daughter among those inoculated
Tech2 News Staff •The Russian Health Minister has said that plans are in motion to start a mass vaccination campaign against the novel coronavirus in October.