Russia today announced that its Sputnik V vaccine against covid-19, developed by the National Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology Gamaleya in Moscow, is 95% effective, according to preliminary results.
In a statement, the Research Center said that the results were obtained from volunteers, 42 days after the injection of the first dose.
In October at a press conference on Covid-19 data, Angola’s health minister, Sílvia Lutucuta, indicated that Angola will benefit from the vaccine, after being certified and properly tested.
The minister had pointed out that Angola is not going to participate in phase three of testing the vaccine, “we will, in fact, wait for us to have certified vaccines, to use them safely”.
Angola counts, so far, 14,634 positive cases, with 337 deaths, 7,351 recovered and 7,283 assets.
Other laboratories like Pfizer and BioNTech recently announced that their vaccine is 95% effective in preventing covid-19, according to the results of their clinical trial.
The biotechnology company also announced this month that provisional data indicate that its vaccine is 94.5% effective in reducing the risk of contracting the disease.
On Monday, AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford announced that their vaccine has an average efficacy rate of 70 percent.
The covid-19 pandemic caused at least 1,388,590 deaths resulting from more than 58.6 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a report made by the French agency AFP.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
