All work was suspended for the second Gamaleya Institute scientists are also tasked with developing the researchers, the vaccine is effective, says the director of the Institute Alexander Gintsburg.
When approved, the vaccine led to expect that the number of people experience Gintsburg insisted. It's required that all of the experts and the vaccine widely used tests.
"We gave people the choice to either protect themselves or to play roulette and India - you will not get infected, or you will die?" He said.
The name - 5 Sputnik - Hark back in the Soviet Union's first successful space satellite lorem decades ago.
He told CNN that the Kremlin does not Gintsburg Gamaleya command.
"We do not have direct communication with the Kremlin, will not give any of us, 'said Gintsburg." The only link to the Kremlin [we have] Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin's likeness in a box 'Gintsburg chuckled, referring to the common image of the role of Vladimir Putin's younger - a birthday gift from friends takes 14 years, he said.
"It is our task to set this pathogen and to give it to him, which is exactly what we are doing now. And, as all well know, can only be defeated with the help of vaccination. "
Gamaleya-based Institute in Moscow, Russia, is the oldest, most outcomes research laboratories vaccine. However, the rush to create Sputnik 5, which bypassed the normal scientific practices.
Then, no large-scale human tests before approval, Russian troops used as "voluntary" in the first trials in the Institute's director was also injected with the vaccine experiment, and the staff CNN has learned that as early as March.
"We have our staff will be vaccinated. The first is that the vaccine staff to participate in developing the product. There are many people who staffers, television appreciate that very much," Gintsburg told CNN. An illness of some members of staff to be a hard blow, not only for me personally but also for our workflow. This fact does not allow to lose any of our staffers as a result of being infected Covid 19 ".
Russia had the fourth largest number of coronavirus cases across the world, behind the United States, Brazil and India, according to Harvard University. There are 12 ranks overall deaths, the data showed JHU.
From the first human tests were published in The Lancet Sputnik 5 last month. More importantly, just 76, who were involved in the courts of justice. Russian experts say is too small to determine whether the vaccine is safe and effective. However, Lance For they are only mild reviewed clinical data is generally positive immune response to the adverse effects reported, and the recipes of participants in the trial.
The fast-tracking of the approval of the vaccine begun human trials 3 Russia at a time when the whole world is looking for a vaccine generated outside criticism of Russia. However Gintsburg, which describes a pandemic as a "war" and "emergency" said he has no qualms.
"If the chance to ask the relatives of those who died if they would have preferred to vaccinate their loved ones with the vaccine, as demonstrated excellent early results and no side effects, or to wait until the end of the trials for these results to be confirmed, I believe the question the answer to which, obvious, "he added.
After months of requests, has allowed CNN exclusive tour inside the Labs where the vaccine was developed.
Researchers wearing white gloves and coats were working on Sputnik 5 in the buildings, which were in the Soviet era for this type contains it.
From head to the laboratory, Vladimir Gushchin the consumer to use their expertise, knowledge and technology development in addition to other disease vaccines honed in on the edge may get an international pharmaceutical companies looking to create a 19-Covid the vaccine.
He said the focus exactly beating coronavirus is vital.
"What's the secret? I secrets where your team that has a rapid concentration in this process. In many pharma firms do not have different projects in which you are involved. But (that) I applied for this particular purpose; people are ready to stay here overnight. "
Russia's tax rich ornaments (RDIF), which is funded vaccine production, has announced deals to supply one hundred million doses of Sputnik in 5 countries around the world.
After the 19-US President Donald Trump is Covid better health Gushchin told CNN that the US should reconsider its wish to cooperate with the vaccine.
"Now is a good time to seriously consider the means to defend itself against US-Russian vaccine Covid 19, said." Trump is in this state, if nothing else should be vaccinated Sputnik V. "
Now the Kremlin said that Putin had the vaccine may soon be on the road ahead of South Korea. He would become the latest high-profile Russian Sputnik-5 including the defense minister, the mayor of Moscow and, according to one of Putin's own daughter.
But the founder of a vaccine does not seem fazed.
"I do not feel any pressure," Gintsburg said, "I just feel a certain responsibility produced by the vaccine, and I feel all my life."
CNN is in Moscow, Anna Chernova attention to this story.
