“People are dying and do not want to be vaccinated”

Desperate for the slowness of the Covid-19 vaccination in the Russian capital, where residents, despite mortality, refuse to vaccine, which, however, is available in abundance, appeared the mayor of Moscow.

“People are still sick, “People continue to die and do not want to be vaccinated.” said Sergei Sobyanin in a meeting with Muscovites last week, the video of which was posted today on the municipality’s website.

“It is disappointing because there have been no restrictions on vaccination for six months now,” he said, as Moscow launched its vaccination campaign. Spoutnik-V in December to expand it very soon to the whole population.

As noted by AMPE, Vaccination centers have opened all over the city, even in malls and parks. But only 1.3 million Muscovites have been vaccinated, or 10% of the population, according to official figures.

Almost everywhere in Russia the vaccination campaign is faltering. According to the Gogov website, only 25 million doses of the vaccine have been administered throughout Russia. In the absence of daily official data, the website combines data from several official and journalistic sources to calculate the evolution of vaccination in the country of 146 million inhabitants.

Only 10.4 million Russians have received the two necessary doses of the vaccine.

The president Vladimir Putin has been personally involved in recent weeks in trying to persuade Russians to get vaccinated so that collective immunity can be achieved in the fall of 2021.

However, according to a Levada Institute poll conducted in April, 62% of respondents do not intend to be vaccinated due to the suspicion of the Russian population towards the country’s authorities.

However, according to AMPE, Russia is one of the countries most affected by the epidemic. According to Rosstat, about 250,000 deaths were linked to Covid-19 at the end of March, double the number reported by the government on a daily basis.

Following the deadly wave of the epidemic in the autumn and winter, the cases began to decrease. But authorities are worried about a third wave that is beginning to be announced, as the number of cases has begun to rise in recent weeks.

“The situation with the disease caused by the young coronavirus “It remains tense,” admitted Health Minister Mikhail Mouratsko today.

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