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President Vladimir Putin has heralded Russia’s vaccine offering as “reliable as a Kalashnikov assault rifle”.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The comment was made during a video conference on Thursday with Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It came as the country’s health officials registered a single-dose version of the Sputnik V vaccine on Thursday, dubbed Sputnik Light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Putin’s comparison referenced the Soviet Union-era weapon that remains popular and widely used still today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was quoting a comment originally made by an Austrian doctor earlier this year about the jab’s efficacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Sputnik V vaccine works in a similar way to others developed by Oxford\/AstraZeneca and Janssen\/Johnson & Johnson. It uses a cold-type virus, engineered to be harmless, as a carrier to deliver a small fragment of the coronavirus to the body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Critics of the Putin administration were sceptical when the vaccine was given speedy regulatory approval in Moscow last year, but late-stage trials have found it offers high levels of protection against Covid-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two-dose version of the jab has now been authorised in dozens of other countries around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sputnik Light, a single-use version where recipients only get the first jab, was officially authorised in Russia on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a press release, its makers said a single dose had demonstrated 79.4% efficacy during the country’s vaccine roll-out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The single-dose regiment allows for immunisation of a larger number of people in a shorter time frame, furthering the fight against the pandemic during the acute phase,” the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The authorisation comes amid an ongoing international row over whether patents should be waived on vaccine technology to boost production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BY: bbc.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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