“Today, after these two procedures, I already did some sport in the morning,” Putin said during a cabinet meeting.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is encouraging his citizens to receive their vaccines by revealing he’s gotten his booster. Putin announced that he has received a booster shot against COVID-19, as well as an experimental nasal vaccine funded by Russia’s medical institute. Sputnik V, the country’s domestically developed vaccination, is currently being adapted into a nasal version and has yet to go through clinical studies. Russia’s Health Ministry gave the go-ahead to early trials of the Gamaleya Center nasal vaccine, which is sprayed into both nostrils, among 500 volunteers. “That was all—I didn’t feel anything. Nothing,” Putin said during a cabinet meeting on Wednesday. “Today, after these two procedures, I already did some sport in the morning.” This news comes as the country’s COVID-19 numbers are surging. Officials are reporting record-high numbers of new cases and deaths, while less than 40 percent of the population has been fully vaccinated. Russia has a population of nearly 146 million people.
