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.