Russia surprised and alarmed the scientific community in August 2020 by being the first country to register a vaccine, Sputnik V. Doctors pointed out that this vaccine had not completed any clinical trials and its approval and subsequent offering to other countries seemed to be a purely political action.
Fast forward to summer 2021 and those doctors had sadly been proved right as the Russian vaccine program has collapsed with 800 deaths every day…
www.reuters.com/world/europe/rus…021-07-16/
MOSCOW, July 16 (Reuters) – Russia on Friday reported 799 coronavirus-related deaths, the most in a single day since the pandemic began and the fourth day in a row it has set a record.
and Russia becoming the first country in the world to mandate a vaccine.
apnews.com/article/europe-russia…b677cb4c38
Sadly it won’t do any good as the vaccine has proved ineffective.
www.worldometers.info/coronaviru…ry/russia/
With other countries that tried Sputnik V vaccine also suffering catastrophically high death tolls like Argentina and also Brazil, Hungary and San Marino, three countries in the top 10 of deaths per capita from covid.
www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Putin has tried and failed to play vaccine diplomacy with the Sputnik V vaccine and the Russian people have to pay a high price for it in lives.
h/t Carnage