MOSCOW, January 30. / TASS /. Former chief sanitary doctor of the Russian Federation, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Education and Science Gennady Onishchenko was vaccinated against coronavirus with a drug developed by the Federal Scientific Center for Research and Development of Immunobiological Drugs named after V. I. M. P. Chumakova of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
"[I was vaccinated] for a long time. I was vaccinated with Chumakov's whole virion vaccine. This is a grown real coronavirus, then [inactivated]. And I made myself with two applications," Onishchenko told TASS.
According to him, the vaccination was "adequate to the situation called immunization." This vaccine has not yet been registered, Onishchenko recalled.
“So I took a root and I strongly recommend that everyone do it, especially those at risk - those at risk for medical reasons and at risk for professional activity,” concluded Onishchenko.
Two domestic vaccines against coronavirus have been registered in Russia: one was developed by the National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology named after N. F. Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Tatyana Golikova reported that on February 16, the registration of a vaccine against the coronavirus of the Center. Chumakov.
The center has developed its own inactivated whole-virion vaccine against coronavirus infection. The drug has passed preclinical trials and is undergoing clinical trials. Whole-virion vaccines use either artificially weakened viruses that cannot cause disease, or viruses that have already been killed (inactivated).
