Video Showing How World’s First COVID-19 Vaccine Is Made

On August 11, President Putin announced that Russia had registered for its COVID-19 vaccine. Called Sputnik V, it was developed by the Gamaleya Research Institute in cooperation with the Russian Defense Ministry. It is the world’s first COVID-19 vaccine, raising hopes that we could finally end this pandemic.

The first doses of the vaccine were manufactured at AFK Sistema’s Binnopharm pharmaceutical plant. According to experts, this plant can produce 1.5 million doses per year and it is only one of the few factories engaged in vaccine production to meet world demand.

It is estimated that, in the next 12 months, there will be around 500 million doses of Sputnik V manufactured.

Russian media have released a video recorded inside the Binnopharm factory, revealing the manufacturing process of the first doses of the world’s first COVID-19 vaccine.

The Sputnik V vaccine will include 2 doses. A person will need to inject the vaccine into the body within 3 weeks. It is capable of protecting a person from the SARS-CoV-2 virus for 2 years.

This is a vector vaccine that uses another weaker virus carrying the DNA codes needed to trigger a response from the immune system. The virus used in this vaccine is adenovirus, the strain causing the common cold.

Russian health officials previously announced that the mass vaccination could start as soon as October this year. As per Health Miniter Mikhail Murashko, people of “high-risk” groups like medical workers and senior citizens will be vaccinated in August.

Deputy Director Denis Logunov of Gamaleya Research Institute revealed that they were able to shorten the vaccine’s researching time thanks to applications from research related to the MERS virus which also belonged to the coronavirus strain.

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