COVID-19 live updates: Total number of cases passes 38.9 million
Written by MNT News Team on October 16, 2020 — Fact checked by Jasmin Collier
Last month, Russia announced the approval of a COVID-19 vaccine called Sputnik V. This week, President Vladimir Putin announced the approval of a second vaccine, called EpiVacCorona. As with the first, scientists have not yet tested this vaccine in phase 3 trials.
