“By the way, I intend to do it myself tomorrow,” Vladimir Putin said in televised remarks. (File)
Moscow:
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday dismissed foreign criticism of the country’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine and said he would get the jab the following day.
Describing EU remarks on the vaccine as “strange”, Putin said: “We are not imposing anything on anyone… Whose interests are such people protecting — of pharmaceutical companies or the interests of citizens of European countries?”
“Vaccination is of course the voluntary choice of every person… By the way, I intend to do it myself tomorrow,” he said in televised remarks.
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