{"id":126738,"date":"2021-05-28T15:34:36","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T15:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=126738"},"modified":"2021-05-28T15:34:36","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T15:34:36","slug":"russia-declines-to-approve-combined-astrazeneca-sputnik-v-vaccine-trials-astrazeneca-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/markets\/russia-declines-to-approve-combined-astrazeneca-sputnik-v-vaccine-trials-astrazeneca-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia declines to approve combined AstraZeneca, Sputnik V vaccine trials -AstraZeneca official"},"content":{"rendered":"
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Russian health ministry has declined to approve clinical trials in Russia of a vaccine against COVID-19 combining Russia\u2019s Sputnik V and AstraZeneca\u2019s shots, an AstraZeneca official told Reuters on Friday.<\/p>\n
Human trials of a COVID-19 vaccine combining a shot from AstraZeneca and Britain\u2019s Oxford University with Russia\u2019s Sputnik V vaccine were approved in Azerbaijan, the United Arab Emirates and Belarus, said Irina Panarina, AstraZeneca general director in Russia and Eurasia.<\/p>\n
She said AstraZeneca was preparing a response to questions from Russia\u2019s health ministry.<\/p>\n