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On Saturday, Moscow will open its new vaccination center, announced Mayor Sergei Sobjanin. The first to receive the nationally produced preparation, Sputnik V, are the teachers, doctors and social workers.
As early as Friday, Moscow residents can digitally register for a syringe.
To date, more than 100,000 people in special groups in the country have already received the vaccine. According to preliminary data from Russia, the vaccine is 92 percent effective in protecting people from the disease.
At the same time is at least ten Several vaccines in development in Russia, according to the country’s state epidemiologist Anna Popova. One of them, called Epivaccorona, is registered and will be tested on some 40,000 volunteers, according to the Health Ministry.
Kazakhstan will also start producing the Russian corona Sputnik V vaccine and a mass vaccination campaign is planned to begin there next year, announce the staff of Kazakh President Kazymzhomart Tokayev.
Production will begin on December 22 and it will be mainly teachers, doctors and police who will be vaccinated, the message has been delivered by Prime Minister Askar Mamin to the president.
Kazakhstan is also on the starting grid for a phase 3 study of their own vaccine, says the Prime Minister. Two million doses of the vaccine will be produced this month.
To date, Kazakhstan, which has a population of 19 million, has suffered 134,706 COVID-19 cases and 1,990 deaths.
On Thursday, Russia registered 28,145 covid cases, of which 7,750 were in Moscow.
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