The Czech drugs regulator doesn't have enough data to adequately assess Russia's Sputnik V vaccine for clinical trials, its chief said Thursday.
“We received so little material that we could not say if we would recommend its use or not,” said Irena Storová, the head of the State Institute for Drug Control, in an interview with Radiožurnál. “It was only a fraction of the documentation that is submitted by default for the registration or assessment of a drug or medicine.”
On Wednesday, Brazil's drug regulator said it had found abnormalities in its Sputnik V samples, leading it to refuse to import the vaccine.
This follows a negative assessment from Slovakia's drug regulator earlier in the month, when it said that the Sputnik V doses delivered were different to those supplied elsewhere or to the European Medicines Agency.
Technical experts from the World Health Organization are due to start the next round of their review of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19 jointly with the European Medicines Agency on May 10, the WHO said on Thursday.
What Moscow needs is a hole in the wall to pass samples through.
"Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people." - Giordano Bruno
Vladimir Putin wrote:"Sputnik V is as reliable as a Kalashnikov assault rifle".
But the AK47 and it's derivatives are very reliable and work well with very little maintenance.
I watched a documentary where they compared the AK47 to the M16 during the Vietnam war. Lets just say In the middle of a swampy jungle I'd rather the Kalashnikov.
KungFooBob wrote: ↑Fri May 07, 2021 10:03 am
But the AK47 and it's derivatives are very reliable and work well with very little maintenance.
I watched a documentary where they compared the AK47 to the M16 during the Vietnam war. Lets just say In the middle of a swampy jungle I'd rather the Kalashnikov.
I'm well aware of the capabilities of the AK47 and its derivatives. I've fired about 300 rounds with one and for what it's required to do, it does it very well. It has just 3 moving parts iirc and like you I'd rather have one than an M16 or the SA80 that was just coming into service as I was leaving it. The newer version isn't much better I understand.
However, my comment wasn't about the gun itself but Putin's use of it as an example of Russian technological brilliance. I can't see any 'western' politician using such language.
