Chumakov Center decided to participate in the vaccine program for the poorest countries

Center them. Chumakova submitted an application for the participation of the CoviVac CORONAVIRUS vaccine he created in the international COVAX program. Konstantin Chernov, deputy general DIRECTOR for project activities and innovations of the center, announced this on the air of the Ekho Moskvy radio station.

“We applied to the COVAX program,” he said.

The developer evaluated the effectiveness of the CoviVac vaccine Society

Chernov also said that the center already has experience in delivering vaccines to other countries under the program of the World HEALTH Organization (WHO). “We have some experience, we were practically the only manufacturers in pre-Covid times who supplied the vaccine against yellow fever under WHO programs,” Chernov said.

Earlier, the Russian Direct Investment Fund submitted such an application for participation in Sputnik V.

Vaccine "KoviVak" of the center. Chumakova was registered on February 19. it is based on the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which is specially processed so that it has lost its infectious properties, but at the same time retains the ability to cause an immune response. According to Chernov, the virus was collected among those hospitalized at a hospital in Kommunarka (Moscow).

Its first batches began to arrive at Moscow medical institutions in early June. On June 22, it became known that the batches of the vaccine in Moscow were over. At the same time, the center promised to produce and send up to 1 million doses of this vaccine to Moscow clinics.

The international Covax program was developed with the participation of the World Health Organization (WHO) to facilitate the access of developing countries to coronavirus vaccines. Under the terms of the program, high-income countries pay for the purchase of vaccines by low-income countries.

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