Russia announces first human-tested COVID-19 vaccine, beating the U.S. to the punch like it did with Sputnik in which Russia sent the first human to space...By Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, the most read Black digital newspaper in Ohio and in the Midwest
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Developed by the Gamaleya National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology, Russian scientists and doctors utilized two different types of clinical trials using 20 people who volunteered for the injection, one clinical trial carried out at the Burdenko Military Hospital and the other at the Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University.
"The research has been completed and it proved that the vaccine is safe," said Elena Smolyarchuk, chief researcher for the Russian Center for Clinical Research on Medications at Sechenov University in a news wire issued Sunday. "The volunteers will be discharged on July 15 and July 20," Smolyarchuk was quoted as saying in the report.
Once again Russia has outdone the United States relative to science and technology, this COVID-19 vaccine of which follows the 20th century space race competition between the U.S. and Russia where the Soviet Union achieved the first successful launch with the October 4, 1957 orbiting of Sputnik 1 and, on April 12, 1961, sent the first human to space with the orbital flight of Yuri Gagarin.
The USSR also sent the first woman, Valentina Tereshkova, to space on June 16, 1963, with numerous other firsts taking place over the next few years with regards to flight duration, spacewalks and related activities.
The United States, however, can brag of being the first to have a human to walk on the moon as the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle, commanded by astronaut Neil Armstrong, stepped onto the moon's lunar surface on July 20, 1969, some 49 years ago.
According to the World Health Organization, there are at least 21 potential vaccines currently under trial worldwide.
Worldwide there are 13 million confirmed coronavirus cases and more than 573,000 deaths.
After months of decline, the coronavirus pandemic, which began re-spiking late last month in the U.S. and elsewhere worldwide, broke another record Friday with nearly 60,000 cases in single day nationwide, a figure that brings the total in the U.S. since the pandemic broke in early March to 3.4 million confirmed or probable cases countrywide and some 138,000 deaths.
Russia has reported some 740,000 cases of the new SARS coronavirus and 11,614 deaths caused by complications from Covid-19, the disease caused by the new SARS.
Data show that COVID-19 is affecting 213 countries and territories around the world and two international conveyances, the U.S. leading all of the countries in both reported cases and affiliated deaths, followed by Brazil, India Russia and Peru respectively, and to round off the top five countries.
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