Dmitry Medvedev. Archival photoMOSCOW, Jan 28 Russia does not yet have its own matrix RNA vaccine like Pfizer and Moderna, and this is a task that needs to be addressed, work is underway in this direction, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview RIA Novosti and other leading Russian media. «We do not yet have our own matrix RNA vaccine like Pfizer and Moderna. By the way, this is also a task that needs to be dealt with, because this vaccine has its pluses and minuses. So work in this direction is underway,» Medvedev said. He also noted that vaccine developers can switch from one strain to another within the framework of the vector vaccine, which is Sputnik V, and such work is being carried out, including on the «omicron «. There are “technological issues” with regard to vaccines created according to a different principle, for example, “KoviVac”, based on a killed virus. “Accordingly, then, as I understand it, you just need to start the process of creating a new vaccine based on a different strain, for example , but, let's say, Indian or some other. This is a rather complicated process,» the deputy chairman of the Security Council added.
