Moscow.- The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, announced this Sunday that he received a third dose of Covid vaccine, at a time when Russia faces a serious pandemic wave and there is a low level of vaccination.
“I did it two hours ago,” he announced Putin, in televised images broadcast on the Russian public channel Rossia 24.
The injection was “painless,” he assured, in a meeting with Denis Logunov, senior manager of the Gamaleya center, the institution that developed the Sputnik V vaccine, the first to be approved in Russia in 2020.
According Putin, who was vaccinated with two doses of Sputnik V in March and April, this time he received Sputnik Light.
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Since the beginning of autumn, Russia does not stop beating records of 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 mandatory vaccination, Putin it supported such measures for some regions and certain categories of citizens.
Total, Russia officially registered 9 million 331 thousand 158 cases of coronavirus and 264 thousand 95 deaths, which makes it the most mourning country in Europe.
According to the statistics agency Rosstat, which applies a more comprehensive method of calculation, the total balance of the pandemic in Russia It was close to 450,000 dead at the end of September.
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