MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's health minister is preparing a mass vaccination campaign against the novel coronavirus for October, local news agencies reported on Saturday, after a vaccine completed clinical trials.
Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said the Gamaleya Institute, a state research facility in Moscow, had completed clinical trials of the vaccine and paperwork is being prepared to register it, Interfax news agency reported.
He said doctors and teachers would be the first to be vaccinated.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2020, @06:51AM
I'm just not so naive to think we will have an effective treatment any time soon. Although you're free to keep praying for your common cold vaccine to come.
Lifelong effects that have what kind of impact? Most of the world lives on normally with the yearly upper respiratory tract infections, even though it would be possible to identify lesions in the lung.