“I did it two hours ago,” Putin announced, in televised images broadcast on the Russian public broadcaster Rossia 24.
The injection was “painless,” he said, in a meeting with Denis Logunov, senior manager of the Gamaleya center, the institution that developed the vaccine. Sputnik V, the first to be homologated in Russia in 2020.
According to Putin, who was vaccinated with two doses of Sputnik V in March and April, this time he received Sputnik Light.
Since the beginning of autumn, Russia has not stopped breaking records for infections and daily deaths from covid-19. An increase that is due, in part, to the low vaccination rate of the population, due to distrust of the authorities.
Although the country has several vaccines of its own development, only 36.7% of the Russian population is fully immunized, according to the specialized site Gogov.
Opposed to the mandatory vaccination, Putin supported such measures for some regions and certain categories of citizens.
In total, Russia has officially registered 9,331,158 coronavirus cases and 264,095 deaths so far, making it the most mourning country in Europe.
According to the statistics agency Rosstat, which applies a more comprehensive method of calculation, the total toll of the pandemic in Russia was about 450,000 deaths at the end of September.
Source From: Ambito
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