Health authorities are still awaiting the arrival of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine to be shipped to the UAE.
According to the report of The National, health officials from the Department of Health (DOH) said this is not yet available for the general public.
The vaccine produced by Gamaleya National Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology has been approved for emergency use by UAE authorities last January 21.
This came after the Emirates hosted a small-scale Phase 3 trial of the vaccine, which involved almost 1,000 volunteers.
According to the clinical trial data, the vaccine has 91.4 percent efficacy on day 28 after the first dose; and more than 95 percent on 42 days after the first dose.
DOH said those who volunteered to get the vaccine are being followed up for their safety for a period of six months, starting from the date of their first vaccine dose.
Volunteers gets two doses of the Sputnik vaccine with a 20-day gap between the first and the second injection.
This is the second trial in the UAE, after more than 30,000 people took part in a study for the Sinopharm vaccine.
It is expected that the study will be completed by the end of July 2021 once all the 1,000 volunteers have done their safety follow-up visits.
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