Russians spurn Sputnik shots, deaf to Putin’s pleas

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MOSCOW — Like many Moscow residents, Davlatmo Khadamshoyeva has her doubts about coronavirus vaccines developed in Russia, and is in no hurry to be immunized.
“I haven’t got the jab yet. I don’t really trust it,” the 23-year-old, not wearing a mask, told AFP outside an iconic shopping centre on Red Square.

“The vaccine hasn’t been fully tested yet,” the international relations student said.

Russia — with great fanfare — registered the world’s first coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V in August 2020.

Named after the world’s first satellite launched by the USSR in 1957, Sputnik has been touted by President Vladimir Putin as “the world’s best” jab, while leading independent medica…

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