Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin has expressed regret over the delay in the vaccination campaign against Covid-19 in the Russian capital, whose residents, despite the high death rate from the infection, are refusing the abundant vaccines, AFP reported.
“People continue to get sick and continue to die, and yet they do not want to be vaccinated,” Sobyanin said at a meeting with Muscovites last week, a video of which was posted on his website today.
“It’s desperate because it’s been almost six months since there were no more vaccination restrictions,” the mayor said.
Moscow launched its Sputnik V vaccine campaign in December and expanded it very quickly for the entire population.
Vaccination centers were opened everywhere in the city, even in shopping malls and parks. However, only 1.3 million residents of the city have been immunized, which makes up 10 percent of the official population.
Almost everywhere in Russia, the campaign is slow, with 25 million doses so far, according to Gogov, which, in the absence of daily national data, collects data from a number of official and media sources to calculate vaccination progress in the country’s 146 million people.
According to the site, only 10.4 million Russians have received both doses of the vaccine, AFP notes.
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