Germany, France, and Sweden that started the EU sanctions on Russia have not provided any evidence in the case of the Russian dissident Alexei Navalny not only to the Russian authorities but even to their EU partners.
The Russian-made Sputnik V is the first vaccine that has been registered back in August. Russian authorities announced that the vaccine had proven to be 95 per cent effective.
The claim advances a recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative concerning the Russian-made coronavirus vaccine, Sputnik V; casting Russia as the spearhead of the global race to develop an effective treatment for COVID-19.
The Russian government's approval of Sputnik V in August 2020 hardly makes it the world's first coronavirus vaccine. Serious doubts linger over both the safety and efficacy of the Russian-made jab, given the lack of transparency which accompanied the approval process and the "very strange patterns in the data" which the drug's developers submitted to The Lancet journal. In fact, Russia remains the only country which has approved a COVID-19 vaccine before the publication of Phase III efficacy data.
The claim that Sputnik V demonstrates 95% efficacy has been called into question. According to Science magazine, the assertion "doesn't pass the smell test," given that the percentage is based on merely 20 cases. By comparison, the estimated efficacy of the Pfizer-BioNTech shot is based on 94 identified cases, and the clinical trials are to continue until that number reaches 164.
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