Russia’s Gamaleya National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology works on the technology accelerating the creation of a novel coronavirus vaccine in case of rapid genomic alterations of the infectious agent, Alexander Gintsburg, the head of the Sputnik V vaccine center, said in a televised interview with Rossiya-1 news channel, an excerpt of which was aired on the channel on Friday.
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"The research center is working on technology which will allow developing vaccines very quickly and efficiently in case the pathogen starts mutating rapidly," he said.
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Earlier, Fedor Lisitsyn, the Gamaleya center’s lead researcher, said that none of the detected coronavirus mutations could affect the efficacy of the available vaccines.
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