Coronavirus: Russia has started applying Sputnik V vaccine to medical staff and teachers

Russia began vaccinating against the coronavirus on Saturday. The so-called “groups at risk”, that is to say “citizens who, because of their professional activities, are in contact with many people”, according to the authorities explained to the press agency AFP, they are the first to receive it.

In the country’s capital 70 centers were created, initially for social workers, medical staff and teachers, who will be the first to be vaccinated.

Russia was one of the first countries to announce the development of a vaccine. The Sputnik V, What is currently in the third and final phase of clinical trials involving 40,000 volunteers.

The vaccine, administered in two doses 21 days apart, it will be free for Russian citizens and will be administered on a voluntary basis.

Today, health authorities said that During this first phase of vaccination in Moscow, vaccination will not be administered to workers over 60 years of age, people with chronic diseases, pregnant or breastfeeding women. but without indicating when the treatment will be available to the general public.

Vaccination, voluntary, it is carried out by prior appointment, which is requested via the internet on the portal of the town hall’s services. The entire procedure, according to authorities, takes about an hour, as it includes a medical examination, preparation of the vaccine, which must be thawed on site, and an observation period of half an hour after the inoculation.

Dramatic increase in the United States

Meanwhile, the President-elect of the United States, Joe biden, today warned that country experiences “dramatic increase” in Covid-19 cases, after recording new maximum daily infections of disease, which this week has become the leading cause of death in the world’s leading power.

With 227,885 infections in the last 24 hours, the country recorded a new high of infections, while 2,607 people died on the last day, reported today Johns Hopkins University (JHU), which collects data from authorities, the media and other open sources.

United States is the country worst affected by the coronavirus in absolute terms, with more than 14.39 million cases and 279,000 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic.

UK starts Tuesday

The British government confirmed this Saturday 15,539 new daily cases and 397 deaths in the last 24 hours, a drop from 16,298 cases and 504 deaths on Friday, days before the start of the national campaign for vaccination against the coronavirus which will begin next Tuesday.

Today’s new equilibrium increases the the total infections in the country at 1,705,971 and the total deaths at 61,014.

In this context, UK National Health Service Chief Chris Hopsonannounced the start on Tuesday of next week of what Prime Minister Boris Johnson has described as “the biggest vaccination campaign in UK history”.

The campaign will begin when the country receives the 800,000 doses planned to cover the first days, while waiting for the millions more he will receive at the beginning of next year, after the approval of the joint BioNTech / Pfizer vaccine.

This treatment will be administered initially to nursing home workers, people over 80 and medical staff.

Experts called for caution with such rapid approval, given that the European Union is still evaluating the effects of the treatment, taking into account the skepticism of some company extracts.