Andrey Botikov, one of the scientists who helped to create the Russian Covid-19 vaccine Sputnik V, was strangled to death with a belt at his apartment here and police have arrested a suspect in connection with the murder, according to a Russian media report on Saturday. Russian President Vladimir Putin honoured the virologist with the Order of Merit for the Fatherland award for his work on the vaccine. Andrey Botikov, one of the scientists who helped to create the Russian Covid-19 vaccine Sputnik V, was strangled to death with a belt at his apartment here and police have arrested a suspect in connection with the murder, according to a Russian media report on Saturday. Russian President Vladimir Putin honoured the virologist with the Order of Merit for the Fatherland award for his work on the vaccine.
