The Russian president received a dose of Sputnik Light, a single-dose vaccine, on Sunday after receiving two doses of Sputnik V in March and April.
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He wants to lead by example. Vladimir Putin announced on Sunday, November 21, that he had received a third dose of the anti-Covid vaccine, while Russia is facing a serious epidemic wave. “I did it two hours ago”the Russian president said in television footage broadcast Sunday afternoon on Russian public broadcaster Rossia 24.
The injection was “painless”, he assured during a meeting with Denis Logounov, a senior official of the Gamaleïa center, the institution behind the Sputnik V vaccine, the first to be approved by Russia in 2020. After receiving two doses of Sputnik V in March and April, Vladimir Putin said he received a dose of Sputnik Light, a single dose vaccine.
Russia has continued to beat its records for daily infections and deaths due to Covid-19 since the beginning of the fall. This outbreak is facilitated by the low vaccination rate of the population, against a background of mistrust of the authorities. Even though the country has several vaccines of its own design, only 36.7% of the Russian population are fully immunized, according to the specialized site Gogov.