The Ministry of Health investigated the effectiveness of “Sputnik V” against the British strain of COVID-19

The Ministry of Health conducted a study of the effect of the Russian Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine against the British strain of COVID-19. The drug has shown high efficiency, said Minister of Health Mikhail Murashko. His words are quoted by Interfax.

“A study of the neutralizing activity of the blood serum of volunteers vaccinated with” Sputnik V “against the” British “strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus was carried out. According to the results of the study, the level of neutralizing antibodies to the “British” strain does not significantly differ from the level of neutralizing antibodies to the original strain, ”Murashko said.

In other words, the Russian vaccine protects against the new strain no less, the minister concluded.

Earlier, the head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova also stated the effectiveness of the Russian vaccines EpiVacCorona and Sputnik V against the British strain of coronavirus. According to her, this helps keep the strain out of Russia.

At the end of last year, it became known about the emergence of new mutated strains of SARS-CoV-2 from the UK, South Africa and Brazil. These variants of the virus spread more easily, which could lead to an increase in cases, deaths and hospitalizations, experts say.

Inga Razumovskaya

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