Sergei Shoigu
UN: No vaccine to be endorsed before it's safe and effective

Sep. 04, 2020 01:07 PM EDT
LONDON (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization said the U.N. health agency would not recommend any COVID-19 vaccine before it is proved safe and...

In this handout photo taken on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020, and provided by Russian Direct Investment Fund, an employee works with a coronavirus vaccine at the Nikolai Gamaleya National Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology in Moscow, Russia. Russia on Tuesday, Aug. 11 became the first country to approve a coronavirus vaccine for use in tens of thousands of its citizens despite international skepticism about injections that have not completed clinical trials and were studied in only dozens of people for less than two months. (Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr/ Russian Direct Investment Fund via AP)
Russia publishes virus vaccine results, weeks after approval

By Daria Litvinova And Maria Cheng Sep. 04, 2020 10:43 AM EDT