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Russia targets to launch first coronavirus vaccine next month: Report
world's first Covid-19 vaccine from Russia pouring in since the last few days, Russian scientists said they are eyeing to launch the vaccine by mid-August, according to a report.According to Director of the Gamaleya Scientific Research Institute, Alexander Gintsburg, there are hopes that "a small amount" of the vaccine would be available to people in the middle of August, and private companies would start producing vaccines in the beginning or the middle of September, as reported by Sputnik News.The head of the research institute added that the vaccine would not be available in pharmacies in the near future.However, the report also citied Mikhail Schelkanov, the head of the microbe ecology lab at the School of Biomedicine of Russia's Far