Crimean vaccine against coronavirus to be tested on volunteers in spring

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Crimea has developed its own vaccine against coronavirus, tests on volunteers will begin in the spring.

Associate professor of the Department of Biochemistry, KFU named after IN AND. Vernadsky, virologist Vladimir Oberemok.

Earlier it was reported that the immune response to the Crimean vaccine had already been found in rabbits, after which the experts made a serum, which was analyzed in the Novosibirsk center “Vector”. They found that antibodies were produced against some variants of the vaccine.

After testing the drug on volunteers, the dose and combination of vaccine constructs will be selected so that “the largest possible number of people form antibodies. The Crimean vaccine under the working title “Lasso” can be taken by injection or by inhalation through the nose, writes TASS.