This Saturday, the vaccination begins in Moscow | First …

The mayor of Moscow announced that this Saturday the vaccination of people from risk groups begins. The announcement of the first use of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine came after President Vladimir Putin ordered the start of a mass vaccination campaign on Wednesday. “The vaccination campaign will begin on December 5” with “the administration of the first doses to people from high-risk groups,” Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said in a statement.

Moscow is the epicenter of the pandemic in Russia, a country that has established a peak number of infections for several days, with records of over 25,000 positives in several days and a record of over 28,000 in the past 24 hours.

As of Friday, a registry will be operational so that healthcare staff, teachers and social workers can enter their data to receive the coronavirus vaccine, the DPA news agency reported.

The Russian capital has specialized refrigerated containers for storing the Sputnik V vaccine and training is being provided to staff who will handle the treatment doses. “Large quantities of vaccine doses will arrive in the coming weeks. We will expand the list,” said the mayor of Moscow.

His announcement also came hours after the Russian center responsible for counting the virus reported a record 28,145 coronavirus infections in the past 24 hours. During the same period, the country added 554 deaths from the virus. In a video conference, Putin said on Wednesday that more than 2 million doses of the Sputnik V vaccine have already been produced or will be manufactured in the coming days, allowing Russian doctors and teachers to receive both doses immediately.

“Let’s organize the large-scale vaccination process to start at the end of next week,” he told Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Golikova, who is overseeing Russia’s response efforts to Covid-19, during video conferencing.

Putin’s order came on the same day the UK approved the use of the coronavirus vaccine from US pharmaceutical company Pfizer and Germany’s BioNtech, and announced it would start vaccinating its people the next day. next week.