Putin felt minor side effects from COVID-19 vaccine - Ifax

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Putin did not reveal which of three Russian vaccines he had taken, saying only the doctor who inoculated him knows that.

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a video conference call outside Moscow

"I woke up the next morning after the vaccination and it seemed to me I felt slight pain in muscles. I took a thermometer... my temperature was normal," he told the state Rossiya 1 TV channel. Putin said that all three Russian vaccines, the most well-known and widely-available of which is Sputnik V, were almost equal.

Russia started its vaccination campaign against the coronavirus in December. Last Monday Putin said that 4.3 million out of 144 million Russians had so far got two shots of a vaccine.Putin said he expected Russia to reach herd immunity and lift pandemic-related restrictions by the end of summer.

 

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