The first vaccines against the novel coronavirus may appear in Russia in late July, Russian Minister of Health Mikhail Murashko stated during a plenary session of the Russian State Duma.
“I hope that in July, most likely in the last ten days of July, the first drugs will arrive,” he said in response to a question by Russian State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin.
Earlier, Murashko noted that some drugs against the novel coronavirus may enter clinical practice in Russia over the next few weeks, with some of them replacing foreign drugs.
“Currently, there are over 100,000 patients at Russian hospitals, including 4,000 children, suspected of having contracted the coronavirus infection,” the minister said.
In Russia, 242,271 cases of coronavirus cases have already been confirmed, with 48,003 patients having recovered from the virus. Russia’s latest data indicates 2,212 fatalities nationwide.