MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia needed to speed up its vaccination campaign against COVID-19 as the country recorded its highest single-day death toll since the start of the pandemic.
Russia was fast to develop and launch its Sputnik vaccine when the pandemic struck last year, but take-up has been slow, with many Russians citing distrust of the authorities and fear of new medical products.
(Reporting by Andrey Ostroukh; Writing by Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber; Editing by Mark Trevelyan)
