Moscow to open vaccination centers on Saturday – Radioinforme 3

Moscow will open Covid-19 vaccination centers on Saturday, and the first to receive the vaccine will be teachers, doctors and social workers, Mayor Sergei Sobianin said on Thursday.

President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday ordered a large-scale voluntary vaccination program against Covid-19 across Russia to begin next week, noting that teachers and doctors should be the first to receive Sputnik V.

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Moscow citizens will be able to register online from Friday to get the vaccine, Sobianin said in a statement on his website.

Russia, which resisted the imposition of strict lockdown measures during the second wave of the coronavirus, reported a record 28,145 new infections on Thursday, including 7,750 in Moscow.

Report by Marcos Calligaris.