With Russia’s announcement Tuesday that it had become the first country to approve a vaccine against COVID-19, here is a look at the more than two dozen other candidates currently in development. Russian President Vladimir Putin shocked the international community by claiming the new vaccine — dubbed “Sputnik V” after the Soviet satellite — conferred “sustainable immunity” against the novel coronavirus. A vector vaccine — meaning it employes another virus to carry the immune response into human cells — Sputnik is based on similar technology to a Chinese prototype.
With Russia’s announcement Tuesday that it had become the first country to approve a vaccine against COVID-19, here is a look at the more than two dozen other candidates currently in development. Russian President Vladimir Putin shocked the international community by claiming the new vaccine — dubbed “Sputnik V” after the Soviet satellite — conferred “sustainable immunity” against the novel coronavirus. A vector vaccine — meaning it employes another virus to carry the immune response into human cells — Sputnik is based on similar technology to a Chinese prototype.