According to Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, about 5,000 people applied for vaccination in the first hours. Citizens of a city of 13 million who practice these professions and are between the ages of 18 and 60 have the opportunity to register online. Subsequently, one of 70 vaccination sites is available to them.
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Excluded from vaccination are patients with certain chronic diseases, pregnant women and those who have had a respiratory disease in the past two weeks.
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The Sputnik V vaccine is given in two doses, but the Meduza portal informed on Friday that pharmaceutical companies have so far managed to produce only the first one. There should be a three-week interval between the two doses.
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The developers of Sputnik V, which was only registered in August and is still being tested, claim that the vaccine is 95% effective and should not cause any serious side effects. About two million batches should be produced by the end of the year.
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In addition to Sputnik V, Russia has already approved a vaccine from the Siberian Vector Center called EpiVakKorona.
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Reuters points out that some scientists have reservations about the speed with which the Russian authorities proceeded when approving the products, without having completed complete safety and efficacy tests.
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In Russia, 28,782 new cases of coronavirus infection arrived on Friday, the highest since the start of the pandemic. Almost 43,000 people have died in the country in connection with the disease.
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