The Russian Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine is registered in the first African country – Algeria. This is stated in the Twitter account of the drug developers.
“The Russian Direct Investment Fund announces the first registration of Sputnik V in Africa. Algeria's Ministry of Pharmaceutical Industry registered Sputnik V on January 10, ”the statement said.
Earlier, the Minister of Health of Ukraine Maxim Stepanov confirmed the filing of an application for registration of the Russian vaccine against the Sputnik V coronavirus by the Biolek company. The company, headquartered in Kharkiv, announced that it had filed an application for registration of Sputnik V with the Ukrainian Ministry of Health on January 5. In the application, the vaccine is named “Gam-COVID-Vac”.
Sputnik V was developed by the Russian Gamaleya Research Center for Electrochemistry and became the world's first officially registered vaccine against coronavirus. Later, the Russian Ministry of Health registered another drug – EpiVacCorona, developed by the Vector Center of Rospotrebnadzor.
