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Vietnam has approved China’s Sinopharm vaccine for use against COVID-19, local media reported on Friday. The decision was signed by Deputy Minister of Health Truong Quoc Cuong, according to VnExpress. It is the third coronavirus vaccine Vietnam has approved, after AstraZeneca’s and Sputnik V.
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Gam-COVID-Vac, trade-named Sputnik V, is a COVID-19 vaccine developed by the Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, and registered on 11 August 2020 by the Russian Ministry of Health. It has been approved for distribution in Russia.
The phase III trial for Gam-COVID-Vac was registered on 28 August 2020, and is a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multi-centre clinical trial involving 40,000 volunteers. The phase III trial is scheduled to run until May 2021.
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