Exclusive: Russia prepares for world's first approval of a Covid-19 vaccine by mid-August, but questions remain
By Matthew Chance, CNN
Updated 7:50 PM ET, Tue July 28, 2020
Russian officials told CNN they are working toward a date of August 10 or earlier for approval of the vaccine, which has been created by the Moscow-based Gamaleya Institute.
It will be approved for public use, with frontline healthcare workers getting it first, they said.
"It's a Sputnik moment," said Kirill Dmitriev, head of Russia's sovereign wealth fund, which is financing Russian vaccine research, referring to the successful 1957 launch of the world's first satellite by the Soviet Union.
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