Still, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin claimed that the country’s vaccine was “the first vaccine against the novel conoravirus infection in the world was registered,” during a televised government meeting.
Prices for the yellow metal have surged to records at least partly on the back of the economic damage wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic, and the potential for a vaccine has always been considered a bearish factor for the precious metal that thrives on uncertainty.
“Traders and…