Not wanting to be outdone by Pfizer, Putin says Russia is about to register a third Covid vaccine

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Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia is about to register its third vaccine against the coronavirus, according to Russian news agencies.

He also said Moscow is ready to cooperate with all other countries on vaccines but warned against the "politicization" of the process.

Russia's vaccine developers now say that stage three clinical trials of the vaccine involving 40,000 volunteers are underway in Russia, and trials have been announced in the United Arab Emirates, India, Venezuela and Belarus.

In mid-October, Russia announced it had granted regulatory approval to a second coronavirus vaccine, although again in this case, approval came before substantive results had been published and a large-scale phase three trial had begun, Reuters reported.