Russia's agency claims three prototypes of Coronavirus vaccine ready amid clinical trials

In ar step forward towards curing pandemic Coronavirus (COVID-19), Russia's Federal Biomedical ncy (FMBA)  on Friday, stated that three protos of a vaccine against COVID-19 have been reied, as per international reports. clinical tests on mice were alrey underway since Thursday. results of pilot tests are expected in June and vaccine is expected to be rey in 11 months.

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Russia FMBA: '3 proto vaccines rey'

"As of today, Russia's FMBA has created three protos of vaccine. se are recombinant proteins based on epitopes of surface S-protein SARS-CoV-2. We have launched immulogical potency tests on mice," FMBA said in a statement.

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On Thursday, US President Donald Trump approved use of anti-malarial drug chloroquine for use against vel coronavirus. He mentioned that chloroquine was used to treat strong arthritis as well. Mentioning that chloroquine h shown very encouraging early results, US President also revealed that this drug would be me available immediately.

Also kwn as hydroxychloroquine, chloroquine has been used to treat malaria since 1944. Incidentally, three COVID-19 patients in Rajasthan were successfully cured with a combination of swine flu medicines, chloroquine, and HIV drugs. India currently has seen a spike in positive cases with 271 with 4 deaths.

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Coronavirus crisis

First detected in Wuhan in December 2019, COVID-19- vel coronavirus has affected nearly 118 countries in world. Presently, re are over 2,59,043 confirmed cases of COVID-19 which has led to death of 10,545 people. As re is vaccine or specific antiviral medicine to deal to treat COVID-19, countries have been grappling with all possible mechanisms to contain its scope. So far, China, South Korea, Italy, Spain, and Iran have witnessed most number of confirmed cases of vel coronavirus, with WHO declaring Europe as 'epicenter'.

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