Kirill Dmitriev, 45, the manager of Russia's sovereign wealth fund, claims he and wife Natalia Popova have been given an experimental coronavirus vaccine
He says they now have double the anitbodies of a regular coronavirus patient
Vaccine is about to enter Phase III trial and could be ready by September, he said
Announcement came just hours after UK accused Russian hackers of targeting its researchers, fuelling speculation they stole sensitive data
Russia Is Trying to Beat the West to a Covid-19 Vaccine
July 18 - (Bloomberg) -- A top Russian official said his country could roll out a vaccine against Covid-19 as soon as September, while denying accusations that hackers working for the country’s intelligence agency tried to steal sensitive data from rival researchers in the U.K., U.S. and Canada.
“Russia may be one of the first to produce a vaccine against the backdrop of the billions that are being invested in the U.S. and all the pharma companies working on it,” said Kirill Dmitriev, the chief executive of the government-backed Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), which is financing one of the the country’s efforts to devise a vaccine. “It's a little bit of a shocking story.”
July 18 - (Bloomberg) -- A top Russian official said his country could roll out a vaccine against Covid-19 as soon as September, while denying accusations that hackers working for the country’s intelligence agency tried to steal sensitive data from rival researchers in the U.K., U.S. and Canada.
“Russia may be one of the first to produce a vaccine against the backdrop of the billions that are being invested in the U.S. and all the pharma companies working on it,” said Kirill Dmitriev, the chief executive of the government-backed Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), which is financing one of the the country’s efforts to devise a vaccine. “It's a little bit of a shocking story.”
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