MOSCOW, Nov 1 — Some call it “experimental”, some don’t trust the government, some even buy fake certificates — as their country sees a record coronavirus surge, Russians are proving stubbornly resistant to the country’s Sputnik V vaccine. Russia is among the countries worst-hit by the...
MOSCOW, Nov 1 — Some call it “experimental”, some don’t trust the government, some even buy fake certificates — as their country sees a record coronavirus surge, Russians are proving stubbornly resistant to the country’s Sputnik V vaccine.
With global coronavirus fatalities soon set to top five million, the scepticism of Russians underlines the difficulties that remain in the global fight against Covid. For Russians like Vyacheslav, a 52-year-old businessman, the government has given them no reason to have confidence in the vaccine. “They think that we cannot expect anything good from the government... and that our labouratories are incapable of producing aspirin, let alone a good vaccine,” she said.
But it has not yet won approval from the World Health Organisation or the European Medicines Agency — another fact that is feeding concern among Russians.Putin’s government has been pinning its hopes on vaccines and has shied away from the kind of severe lockdowns imposed in many countries.But with current policies failing to reduce cases, authorities have imposed a nationwide non-working week from October 30 to November 7.
Alexander, a 45-year-old entrepreneur, said he preferred to spend 5,500 rubles to get a false certificate instead of a free vaccine, and knows “a lot of people” who have done the same.
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