mo4ch:>Russia testing MULTIPLE prototype Covid-2019 vaccines | Mo4ch News

Russia’s research center of virology and biotechnology, known as the Vector Institute, is testing multiple different vaccine prototypes against the Covid-19 disease, in a race to find a cure for the virus behind a global pandemic.This week, the institute “began immunogenicity studies in sensitive laboratory animals ... of all developed vaccine prototypes,” said consumer watchdog agency Rospotrebnadzor in a statement on Friday.The composition, dose, route of administration of the future vaccine will be determined [through the tests]. Scientists expect that the introduction of the vaccine will be possible in the fourth quarter of 2020.The Russian Health Ministry's Research Institute of Influenza previously said a prototype vaccine could take between four and six months, with a three-year timetable for a final product, but researchers at the institute suggest it could come much sooner.The World Health Organization – which declared Covid-19 a pandemic last week – meanwhile, has estima…