Putin says Russia needs to speed up vaccination for Covid-19

Addressing newly elected lawmakers of the State Duma -- Russia's lower parliament house -- Putin urged the deputies who had gathered in the Kremlin to convince the Russian public to get vaccinated as the situation continues to worsen across the vast country.

Russia has lagged behind much of the world when it comes to getting its population inoculated, despite being the first country in the world to approve a coronavirus vaccine, Sputnik V, for use in August 2020. The real death toll could be even higher due to the way Russia classifies coronavirus deaths. Rosstat, the Russian statistics agency, records deaths connected to coronavirus where the virus wasn't the only cause or main cause of death, but Russia's coronavirus task force doesn't include those in the official death count.

The reluctance to get vaccinated reflects a broader mistrust of the establishment, Alexandra Arkhipova, a social anthropologist and researcher at the university RANEPA in Moscow, has previously told CNN.

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