Russian President Vladimir Putin said he has taken an experimental nasal vaccine against the coronavirus, three days after he received his booster shot. The nasal vaccine is yet to be tested on the public and needs to go through several trial phases.
Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures while speaking during a cabinet meeting via video conference in the Bocharov Ruchei residence in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2021.
Putin was vaccinated with Sputnik V, Russia’s domestically developed COVID-19 vaccine, in the spring. On Sunday, he said he received a booster shot of Sputnik Light, the one-dose version of the jab, and said he wanted to take part in testing the nasal version of Sputnik V. Putin told a government meeting Wednesday that “exactly six months after vaccination my titers of protective have dropped, and specialists recommended the procedure of revaccination, which I did.”In recent weeks, Russia has been swept by its highest ever COVID-19 surge, with officials regularly registering record-high numbers of new infections and deaths.
Russia’s Health Ministry is expected to approve a version of Sputnik V for teenagers aged 12 to 17 on Wednesday, Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova told Putin during the government meeting. In an effort to boost vaccine uptake, doctors from 11 Russian hospitals released an open letter Wednesday, inviting those skeptical of vaccines — and a number of prominent public figures in particular who are known to air their skepticism in public — to visit coronavirus wards and intensive care units with COVID-19 patients.Russia’s state coronavirus task force reported 33,558 new infections on Wednesday and 1,240 deaths.
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