Popova announced the fifth vaccine against COVID-19

A new, fifth vaccine against CORONAVIRUS will soon appear in Russia, said the head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova during the round table "Sanitary shield of the country - safety for citizens" at the site of the United Russia public support headquarters.

“We developed the first test system very quickly. Of course, the most important part of epidemiological work is, first of all, the work of our scientists. We are analyzing the incidence situation, we understand how the epidemiological process will develop under different scenarios, we see how the virus is changing and how strains are changing, we see how the situation with vaccination is changing. Four vaccines [against COVID-19] have been registered in Russia, and a fifth vaccine is on the way. This situation blocks the spread of the virus,” she said.

At the moment, four vaccines are registered in Russia: "Sputnik V" and one-component "Sputnik Light" from the National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology. N.F. Gamaleya, "EpiVakKorona" from the State Scientific Center for Virology and Biotechnology "Vector" and "KoviVak" from the Federal Scientific Center for Research and Development of Immunobiological Preparations named after. M.P. Chumakov RAS.

The first COVID-19 vaccine, Sputnik V, was approved a year ago. The registration of EpiVacCorona became known in October 2020. The third vaccine, KoviVac, was registered in February 2021. The latest was the one-component vaccine Sputnik Light, which was approved in May.