As global anti-vax movements gain ground, growing number of Russians worry about taking any form of coronavirus vaccine

Russian scientists

Russian scientists made global headlines in August when they unveiled Sputnik V, the first Covid-19 vaccine to be approved anywhere in the world. But as its roll-out nears, health officials face growing vaccine skepticism.

New polling from Moscow’s Levada Center this week shows that as many as six in 10 Russians (59%) would be reluctant to be inoculated against the virus once the formula becomes widely available. This is a rise from just over half of respondents (54%) when the same question was asked two months ago.

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