{"id":3963,"date":"2020-12-27T13:14:23","date_gmt":"2020-12-27T13:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=143833"},"modified":"2020-12-27T13:14:23","modified_gmt":"2020-12-27T13:14:23","slug":"kremlin-says-putin-to-get-coronavirus-vaccine-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/27\/kremlin-says-putin-to-get-coronavirus-vaccine-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Kremlin Says Putin To Get Coronavirus Vaccine Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/648015ca-c927-402c-865a-832ab7c83842_w1200_r1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"wsw\">\n<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin intends to receive his country&#8217;s Sputnik-V coronavirus vaccine in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on December 27 that &#8220;the president himself will announce about the decision&#8221; soon.<\/p>\n<p>Russia&#8217;s Health Ministry a day earlier approved the vaccine for use by people over the age of 60. The ministry said the vaccine was more than 90 percent effective for this age group.<\/p>\n<p>Putin is 68.<\/p>\n<p>During a marathon press conference on December 17, Putin said he would get vaccinated after &#8220;all formal issues&#8221; were resolved.<\/p>\n<p>Russia approved the Sputnik-V vaccine on August 11, making it the first coronavirus vaccine to gain official approval anywhere in the world.<\/p>\n<p>According to official Russian government statistics, just over 3 million cases of coronavirus infection have been recorded since the beginning of the pandemic, with 54,778 fatalities.<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"wsw__h6\">With reporting by TASS<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/27\/kremlin-says-putin-to-get-coronavirus-vaccine-soon\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin intends to receive his country\u2019s Sputnik-V coronavirus vaccine in the near future. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on December 27 that \u201cthe president himself\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3964,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3963\/revisions\/3964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}