Reuters.Putin on nationwide voluntary vaccination programmePresident Vladimir Putin has ordered a nationwide voluntary vaccination programme to begin next week.
He said Russia will have produced 2 million vaccine doses within the next few days.The head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), Kirill Dmitriev, said in an interview with the BBC on Friday that Russia expects to give the vaccine to about 2 million people this month."Over the first five hours, 5,000 people signed up for the jab - teachers, doctors, social workers, those who are today risking their health and lives the most," Mayor Sergei Sobyanin wrote on his personal website on Friday.Russia has already vaccinated more than 100,000 high-risk people, Health Minister Mikhail.