Belarusian vaccine against COVID-19 under development

Belarus’ Deputy Healthcare Minister, Chief State Sanitary Doctor Aleksandr Tarasenko, told ONT TV channel of how work over Belarusian vaccine against COVID-19 is progressing, BelTA reports

"We are now actively liaising with a company that will produce this vaccine. To date, the necessary equipment is being purchased in order to produce vaccines on industrial scales. Creation of an experimental-industrial batch will then start – to be followed by an industrial one which will envisage preclinical and later clinical tests to thus confirm the safety for people’s health and life and then to be able to use [the vaccine] among Belarus’ population and beyond the country,” Mr. Tarasenko said.

According to the Deputy Healthcare Minister, this will be an inactivated vaccine – ‘virtually similar to vaccines that are now in civil circulation: Chinese Sinopharm or Russian CoviVak’.