In Belarus, they announced the effectiveness of Sputnik V at 97.2%

The effectiveness of the Russian vaccine against CORONAVIRUS "Sputnik V" during vaccination in Belarus was 97.2%, according to the website of the Ministry of HEALTH of the Republic.

From the message of the department it follows that the effectiveness of the drug was evaluated on the basis of data from more than 860 thousand people who were vaccinated with two components of Sputnik V. The Russian Direct Investment Fund noted that the Belarusian Ministry of Health studied data on those who were vaccinated from January to July 2021.

A study by the Ministry of Health of Belarus showed that the vaccine is safe, and cases of severe adverse events after vaccination or death associated with vaccination have not been registered.

The Ministry of Health also noted that the Russian vaccine "is created on a well-studied platform of human adenoviral vectors (cold viruses), which mankind has encountered for millennia."