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"A vaccine against coronavirus has been registered for the first time in the world this morning," Putin said during a meeting with members of his government.

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Russia approves Covid-19 vaccine, Putin's daughter gets vaccinated

President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday announced that Russia has developed the world's first vaccine against COVID-19 that works "quite effectively" and forms a "stable immunity" against the deadly disease as he disclosed that one of his daughters has already been vaccinated. (Reuters)

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"A vaccine against coronavirus has been registered for the first time in the world this morning," Putin said during a meeting with members of his government.
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"I know that it works quite effectively, it forms a stable immunity," the official Tass news agency quoted Putin as saying. (Reuters)

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Putin's claim has come amidst concerns raised by experts about the speed of Russia's work, suggesting that researchers might be cutting corners. (Reuters)

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Reacting to Putin's announcement, US health secretary Alex Azar said the goal of developing a coronavirus vaccine is not to be first, but to have one that is safe and effective. (Reuters)

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"The point is not to be first with a vaccine — the point is to have a vaccine that is safe and effective for the American people and the people of the world," Azar said told ABC News. (Reuters)

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"We need transparent data, and it's got to be Phase 3 data that shows that a vaccine is safe and effective," Azar, currently on a historic visit to Taiwan, said. (Reuters)

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Danny Altmann, Professor of Immunology at Imperial College London, told the Science Media Centre there were concerns about releasing a vaccine before it was fully tested. (Reuters)

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"The bar is necessarily set very high for criteria that must be satisfied for approval after Phase 3 clinical trials," CNN quoted Altmann as saying. (Reuters)

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Amid fears that safety could have been compromised, the World Health Organization (WHO) urged Russia last week to follow international guidelines for producing a vaccine against COVID-19, the BBC reported. (Reuters)

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