French President Emmanuel Macron said he shares the position of German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the use of the Russian Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine
“A few weeks ago I decided to send a scientific delegation to Russia for consultations. These consultations were positive. Today we have seen publications that demonstrate the high effectiveness of the Sputnik V vaccine”, – Macron said.
He also noted that the use of the Russian vaccine in the country required the approval of medical regulators of the European Union and France. Macron stressed that “this is not a political issue but a scientific one”.
The Lancet magazine published a material with the results of the third phase of a clinical trial of the Russian drug against coronavirus Sputnik V: the vaccine proved to be one of the safest and most effective in the world.