Putin Can’t Take Russia’s ‘Safe’ Covid Vaccine, Kremlin Says
- President can’t volunteer for ‘uncertified’ jab, Peskov says
- Russia has the world’s fifth-highest total of Covid-19 cases
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President Vladimir Putin told fellow world leaders last week that both of Russia’s Covid-19 vaccines, including one he championed as the world’s first inoculation against the disease, are safe and effective. That doesn’t mean he’s taken a jab.
“We have not yet begun widespread vaccination and the head of state can’t take part in vaccination as a volunteer. It’s impossible,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Tuesday, in response to a question on whether Putin had been inoculated. “The president can’t use an uncertified vaccine.”