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Just a month ago, Russia registered the first vaccine against the coronavirus, developed by the
Gamaleya Center
.
Now the first batch of this Russian
Sputnik V
vaccine
has just been shipped to various points throughout Russia.
The priority is to test the logistics chain for distribution and prepare for the great vaccination process against COVID-19, starting with citizens of the high-risk group.
The first will be the toilets.
"The first batch of the Sputnik V (Gam-Covid-Vac) vaccine, developed by the Gamaleya Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology of the Russian Ministry of Health, was sent to the regions," the ministry said in a statement issued overnight. from Friday to Saturday.
The Russians woke up today with the news that vaccination has begun to take steps throughout the country, despite the fact that Sputnik V is still in its
third phase
of clinical trials.
The first results have been good, although some doctors have valued as too high the percentage of volunteers who experienced a
headache
after receiving the Russian vaccine, which will protect against the new coronavirus for up to two years, according to its creators.
Some Russian companies are already looking for volunteers these days to continue testing it.
But polls show that almost half of Russians (
45.6%
) are not interested in getting this vaccine.
Not out of fear of its effects but because they think the risks of the coronavirus have been exaggerated.
So says a survey by the Moscow Higher School of Economics.
43.4% of respondents believe that the danger of the epidemic is exaggerated or invented by "interested parties".
It's a significant increase from a similar survey conducted in May, which showed that only a third (32.8%) of the country were skeptical of the coronavirus.
The lowest percentage of 'disbelievers' is in Moscow: almost one in three Muscovites believe that the capital is already "on the verge of the second wave."
Good infection data makes Russians perceive the coronavirus as "a less dangerous threat."
"[In Russia] there are no collapsed clinics, so skepticism has grown,"
Yaroslav Ashikhin
, executive director of the Moscow International Medical Group (MIMC) told Russian media 'RBC'.
Russia reported
5,488
new coronavirus cases on Saturday, bringing the national count to
1,057,362
, the fourth largest in the world.
But Moscow (13 million) is registering only
600 daily cases
for months.
And the percentage of infections per total population has not been too high.
As reported by the Russian channel RT,
Sergei Glagolev
, adviser to the Russian Minister of Health, vaccination could soon become one of the requirements for international travel.
A Russian and world vaccine
The Russian government boasts that it has received requests from more than 20 countries to purchase
1 billion doses
of this vaccine.
Russia intends to vaccinate all of
Latin America
against COVID-19
, a region that is a priority in the development and production of the Sputnik V vaccine,
Kiril Dmitriev
, head of the state fund in charge of signing sales and distribution contracts with others
, told Efe.
countries.
And it has agreements to produce it in five nations, thus obtaining up to 500 million doses a year.
In early September, the vaccine began to be administered to the first volunteers, some
40,000
within the third phase of clinical trials after registration.
These days the vaccine is dispensed in testing mode with a special authorization by which it can only be administered to people in risk groups and under strict control, according to the Sputnik agency.
Russia's sovereign wealth fund that promotes the vaccine estimates that more than one billion people will receive their vaccine by 2021, reports the Interfax news agency.
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