Russian scientist who created Covid vaccine ‘strangled to death with a belt in his apartment’
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Andrey Botikov, found dead in his Moscow apartment, was one of 18 who worked on the Sputnik V vaccine during the pandemic. Sputnik was the first registered vaccine against Covid.