The director of the Gamaleya Center, Alexander Gintsburg, said that the coronavirus pandemic showed that the state should have universal technologies to create vaccines and diagnostic systems. This conclusion he made on the air of the YouTube channel “Solovyov Live” on Saturday, March 13.
“The main conclusion is that every state that … wants to protect itself from such cataclysms in the future must develop and have at hand universal technologies that will create the widest range of both vaccine preparations and technologies that will create the widest a range of diagnostic products and therapeutic prophylactic drugs, ”he said.
The scientist emphasized that the plan for development, production and scaling must be tough, that is, a kind of analogue to an emergency plan.
Earlier, on March 5, the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adanom Ghebreyesus compared the coronavirus pandemic to military action. He noted that at present, the leaders of the countries need to unite to produce vaccines for COVID-19 in order to defeat the disease.
Ghebreyesus stressed the need to rise to the challenge and be ready to transfer technology and share drugs with those in need.
In 2020, the Gamaleya Center created the Sputnik V, the first vaccine against COVID-19 in Russia and in the world; it was registered by the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation in August. In February, the safety of the drug was confirmed by the international medical journal The Lancet. The efficiency of Sputnik V is estimated at 91.6%.