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Moscow announces advanced trials for new COVID-19 vaccine

by Associated Press
| August 26, 2020 9:27 AM

MOSCOW (AP) — The mayor of Moscow invited residents Wednesday to join trials of a coronavirus vaccine that Russia approved for use earlier this month, in what officials described as a breakthrough on par with the Soviet Union’s launch of the world’s first satellite in 1957.

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