Moscow. 11th August. INTERFAX.RU – The design of the Sputnik V vaccine is by far the most optimal and highly effective in the fight against COVID-19, said the director of the National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology. N.F. Gamalei, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Gintsburg in an interview published on Wednesday in the Izvestia newspaper.
“Vaccination with two vector components has justified itself. But here we are not talking about any special foresight, but simply there is already experience gained with the previous Ebola vaccine and the MERS vaccine (Middle East respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus – the Middle East syndrome that caused a pandemic in 2012-2013), which our team had. For a year, Sputnik V has fully justified itself, “said Gunzburg.
He stressed that his predictions regarding the operation of Sputnik V had come true.
“It's amazing how everything comes true. Everything that we reported to the President ( Russian Federation Vladimir Putin – IF ), all predictions come true. And the assumptions that this vaccine design will be the most optimal and highly effective today come true,” – clarified the director of the center. Gamalei.
Explaining why other vector vaccines against COVID-19 were less effective than Sputnik V, Gunzburg noted that “firstly, there is no booster.”
“Well, I’m not afraid to suggest that the degree of purification of the components that are used in our country for Sputnik V is superior to the purification technology used by other manufacturers not from our country who make vector vaccines,” the academician noted.
