Russia Registers World’s First Covid-19 Vaccine Despite Safety Concerns

MOSCOW—Russia registered the world’s first Covid-19 vaccine, President Vladimir Putin said, marking a milestone in the fight against the novel coronavirus but amid safety concerns in the West over the country’s accelerated clinical evaluations.

The development was met with anticipation and skepticism in the country. Some health and pharmaceutical officials in Russia and the West have expressed alarm at the speed with which scientists at Moscow’s Gamaleya Institute for Epidemiology and Microbiology developed the vaccine.

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