Is it basically that you can easily get the vaccine if you are in Moskau but not elsewhere in Russia or is the problem about the populations trust in the case?
Both answers are correct: manufacturing is slow and a lot of people are against vaccination. More about in this article in Russian.
Population trust is low and many people deny vaccination. Only around 5 per cent of people in Moscow has been vaccinated, despite easy availability of vaccine for everybody in Moscow. Also, there is a typical situation in Russia from Soviet times when Moscow is oversupplied and regions are undersupplied. Ural region has run out of vaccine.
In my circle, 80 per cent of people had covid, but only a few friends vaccinated (around 5-10 per cent based on the share of people who visited my last year wedding and later vaccinated). There are two explanation according to them: either they already had covid and has antibodies and don’t see the reason to take risks of vaccination, or “they are too old” and afraid of side effects. Interestingly, Russian vaccine was initially approved only for people below 60, Also, unfortunately, Putin didn’t take the shot and this didn’t help the belief in vaccine.
Two more Russian vaccines are in the late stages of approval, and some people wait for them as they are based on more conventional technology: not viral vectors, but dead coronavirus.
Is it basically that you can easily get the vaccine if you are in Moskau but not elsewhere in Russia or is the problem about the populations trust in the case?
Both answers are correct: manufacturing is slow and a lot of people are against vaccination. More about in this article in Russian.
Population trust is low and many people deny vaccination. Only around 5 per cent of people in Moscow has been vaccinated, despite easy availability of vaccine for everybody in Moscow. Also, there is a typical situation in Russia from Soviet times when Moscow is oversupplied and regions are undersupplied. Ural region has run out of vaccine.
In my circle, 80 per cent of people had covid, but only a few friends vaccinated (around 5-10 per cent based on the share of people who visited my last year wedding and later vaccinated). There are two explanation according to them: either they already had covid and has antibodies and don’t see the reason to take risks of vaccination, or “they are too old” and afraid of side effects. Interestingly, Russian vaccine was initially approved only for people below 60, Also, unfortunately, Putin didn’t take the shot and this didn’t help the belief in vaccine.
Two more Russian vaccines are in the late stages of approval, and some people wait for them as they are based on more conventional technology: not viral vectors, but dead coronavirus.