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One morning last August, Vladimir Putin, isolated at his Presidential residence in the forest outside Moscow, held a videoconference with his Cabinet. The ministersâ faces, stern yet deferential, populated a large screen in front of Putinâs deskâthe Kremlinâs version of a pandemic Zoom call. The proceedings were broadcast on state television, and had the wooden quality of reality TV. The meetingâs ostensible agenda was the governmentâs preparations for the school year ahead, but the real news came in Putinâs opening remarks, when he revealed that Russia had granted approval to Sputnik V, the countryâs first vaccine against
Vaccine Fears Slow Moscow’s Sputnik V Rollout
Initial numbers indicate that as few as 14 people per clinic per day are receiving the vaccine. Dec. 17, 2020 A mass rollout of Russia s vaccine began on Dec. 4. Sergei Kiselyov / Moskva News Agency
As a teacher at a large school in Moscow’s southern suburbs, Nina Zhukova should have been one of the first to receive the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine being offered to priority workers across the Russian capital.
Instead, having already contracted and recovered from the virus in the autumn, Zhukova is determined not to be vaccinated.
“I wouldn’t get vaccinated even if I hadn’t had Covid,” she told the Moscow Times.