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Moscow today began distributing the

Sputnik V

vaccine

through 70 clinics

.

This is how the first mass vaccination against Covid-19 in Russia begins.

The Russian vaccine is administered in two injections and the authorities assure that two million doses will soon be ready.

The Russian vaccine will initially be available to doctors and other healthcare professionals.

Teachers and social workers and other professions most at risk of infection will be next.

"You work in an educational institution and you have the highest priority for the Covid-19 vaccine, at no cost."

It is the message that many teachers are beginning to receive on their mobile phones, Reuters reports.

Polls say, however, that Russians do not want to get the vaccine.

Neither the Russian nor any other.

Developed by the Gamaleya research center in Moscow, Sputnik V is

95% effective in immunity.

But they are preliminary results

obtained with volunteers 42 days after the injection of the first dose.

The age to now receive this vaccine is limited to 60 years.

People with certain health problems, pregnant women, and people who have had a respiratory illness in the past two weeks are excluded.

The Russian capital is experiencing a second wave these days.

Moscow, the epicenter of the Russian coronavirus outbreak,

records 8,000 new cases every day

.

The data is well above the daily figures of around 700 cases registered in early September.

With bars and restaurants dining at eleven o'clock at night and a strict mask regimen in public and local transport, the vaccine is the main hope so as not to have to confine the population again.

But scientists have raised concerns about the speed at which Russia has worked, giving regulatory go-ahead for its vaccines and launching mass vaccinations before safety tests were completed.

Vladimir Putin does not want to be left behind.

Hours after the United Kingdom reported that vaccination was beginning next week (with its vaccine, developed by the American company Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech), the Russian president gave the same order.

"Let's get to work now," Putin told Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Golikova. "

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