Russian military says their COVID-19 vaccine creates immunity to virus

The Russian Defense Ministry said Monday that the volunteers testing a vaccine against COVID-19 coronavirus had proved to be immune to the virus after the tests.

“The research results showed clearly that all volunteers had a clear immune response resulting from vaccination,” the ministry’s Zvezda broadcasting service reported.

An immune response is a reaction that occurs within an organism for the purpose of defending against foreign invaders.

Zvezda said that the final medical examination of volunteers conducted earlier on Monday in the Main Military Clinical Hospital of the Defense Ministry was conducted by the ministry jointly with the Russian National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology.

On the 42nd day after the first vaccination, the volunteers returned to the hospital and underwent an in-depth medical examination and diagnosis, it said.