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London (PA Media\/dpa) – A British government minister has refused to confirm whether Russian spies \u00abstole\u00bb the British-made Covid-19 vaccine to create its own jab.<\/p>\nLondon (PA Media\/dpa) – A British government minister has refused to confirm whether Russian spies \u00abstole\u00bb the British-made Covid-19 vaccine to create its own jab.<\/p>\n
Home Office minister Damian Hinds would not be drawn on allegations that the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine’s design was used to create Russia’s Sputnik V jab, instead saying more generally that \u00abstate activity\u00bb was involved in \u00abindustrial espionage.\u00bb<\/p>\n
His comments come after a report by Britain’s Sun newspaper which suggests \u00absecurity services\u00bb sources have evidence that Russian intelligence agents had stolen the Oxford vaccine design.<\/p>\n
On Monday, Hinds told LBC talk radio: \u00abWe live in world, I am afraid, where there is state activity seeking to engage in industrial espionage and economic espionage, there are cyber attacks that happen and so on.\u00bb<\/p>\n
\u00abI won’t comment on the specific case that you mention because that wouldn’t be right to do in detail, but it would be fair to say, correct to say, that we face threats of this type that are different, they are more sophisticated, they are more extensive than they ever have been before.<\/p>\n
Conservative MP Bob Seely, a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, told the Sun that Britain needs to \u00abget serious about Russian and Chinese espionage.\u00bb<\/p>\n
The Isle of Wight MP said: \u00abWhether it is stealing the design for AstraZeneca or blackmailing us over energy by these authoritarian and totalitarian regimes, we need to get wise to them.\u00bb<\/p>\n
Last year, British security services accused Russian spies of trying to steal details of coronavirus vaccine research being carried out by Britain, the US and Canada.<\/p>\n
In 2020, then-foreign secretary Dominic Raab condemned a \u00abshabby\u00bb
\ndisinformation campaign by Russia, which sought to discredit the
\nOxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.<\/p>\n
The campaign suggested the vaccine could turn people into monkeys because it uses a chimpanzee virus as a vector – even though that is a common practice in vaccine development.<\/p>\n
The campaign was allegedly targeted at countries where Russia wanted to sell its own Sputnik V vaccine, as well as at Western nations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
London (PA Media\/dpa) – A British government minister has refused to confirm whether Russian spies \u00abstole\u00bb the British-made Covid-19 vaccine to create its own jab. Home Office minister Damian Hinds would not be drawn on allegations that the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine’s design was used to create Russia’s Sputnik V jab, instead saying more generally that \u00abstate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343],"tags":[390,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-158779","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-actualidad","8":"tag-covid-19","9":"tag-news"},"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t