Russia’s Gamaleya National Research Centre in partnership with the Russian Defence Ministry has registered the first COVID vaccine in the world.
While making the announcement today, Russian President Vladimir Putin said, ‘This morning, for the first time in the world, a vaccine against the new coronavirus was registered.’ He has assured of the efficacy of the vaccine by stating that one of his two daughters has received a shot of the vaccine and is stable.
Soon after, a video started doing the rounds on social media with the claim that it shows Putin’s daughter getting vaccinated.
‘Russia has developed the first coronavirus vaccine. Watch Putin’s daughter gets first COVID-19 vaccine,’ reads the caption of one such post. At the time of writing the report, the video had garnered over 5,000 views.
President Putin’s daughter gets first covid-19 vaccine of the world #RussianVaccine pic.twitter.com/Gu9k9zbOCE
— State news kannada (@CityBhargav) August 11, 2020
T159World’s First Vaccine Against Chinese COVID’19 got registered today in Russia.The first person to be given the vaccine was Putin’s daughter.#CoronaVaccine#RussianVaccine pic.twitter.com/em060wEmfh#RussianVaccine
— Deepak Shelke (@DeepakShelke16) August 11, 2020
Putin announces world’s 1st COVID-19 vaccine.World’s first #Corona vaccine in russia given to Putin’s daughter.Finally something good happened in 2020 Gam-Covid-Vac Lyo!#Putin #RussianVaccine #COVID pic.twitter.com/YX6xQcBg2b
— Tushar (@tverma332) August 11, 2020
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s daughter who gets the first vaccine #RussianVaccine pic.twitter.com/rkAys2VaBz
— Soundar (@csrsrajan) August 11, 2020
World’s first vaccine in russia given to Putin’s daughter#CoronavirusVaccine #RussianVaccine pic.twitter.com/D3dThoC2f1
— Chinna Rayudu (@Chinna0621) August 11, 2020
1st covid-19 vaccine inject in Putin’s daughter #Russia #RussianVaccine #CoronavirusVaccine#CoronaVirusUpdates@adarpoonawalla @BillGates @gatesfoundation pic.twitter.com/9ApOXkHNNs
— गौरव कुमार झा (@gaurav_kuma_jha) August 11, 2020
Caption:
Video shows Vladimir Putin’s daughter getting vaccinated against COVID-19.
Fact Check:
The claim is false. The video does not show Putin’s daughter.
A Reverse Image search was done by breaking the video into individual frames using InVid.
This led to a Youtube video dated June 26, 2020. Therefore, the video definitely doesn’t show Putin’s daughter getting vaccinated. The COVID-19 vaccine was registered on July 11.
According to the caption, the video shows volunteer Natalia. A keyword search led to news reports which too showed Natalia.
According to the report published on July 14, the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Gamaleya Institute was also being tested at Burdenko Military Hospital in Moscow, where the volunteers were injected with the second component of the drug.
The report mentions that Natalia was one of the volunteers at the trial.
‘Last time also, we were not afraid. We are even more confident that everything will be fine and are waiting for us to go to study further,’ Natalia was quoted as saying (Translated from Russian news website).
More reports on the incident with the video can be accessed here and here.
Similar videos of other volunteers of the trial can be viewed here and here.
One of Putin’s daughter did get vaccinated as per reports, however, the video that is being circulated does not show her. It shows a volunteer for the human trial of the vaccine, Natalia.
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