{"id":7576,"date":"2021-01-13T14:04:17","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T14:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=149525"},"modified":"2021-01-13T14:04:17","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T14:04:17","slug":"putin-orders-mass-coronavirus-vaccinations-from-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/13\/putin-orders-mass-coronavirus-vaccinations-from-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin Orders Mass Coronavirus Vaccinations From Next Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/4b52e30c-a0d5-4929-be27-60d841c9d31a_w1200_r1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"wsw\">\n<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered officials to begin mass vaccinations next week and to open up the inoculation program to all Russians.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I ask you to start mass vaccinations of the entire population as early as next week,&#8221; Putin told officials during a government meeting by video link on January 13, touting Russia&#8217;s homemade jab as &#8220;the best in the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Putin said Russia should &#8220;get relevant infrastructure ready&#8221; to boost production of its Sputnik-V vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>Russia, which has the world&#8217;s fourth-highest number of COVID-19 cases, began large-scale vaccinations last month even though it was still in its third phase of clinical trials.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova said the authorities would be ready to broaden the program from January 18.<\/p>\n<p>The RDIF sovereign-wealth fund has said 1.5 million Russians have already been inoculated with Sputnik-V.<\/p>\n<p>Russia health authorities have reported more than 3.4 million coronavirus cases since the pandemic began, with over 63,300 deaths. However, the death toll is believed to be much higher.<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"wsw__h6\">Based on reporting by AFP, AP, dpa, and Reuters<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/01\/13\/putin-orders-mass-coronavirus-vaccinations-from-next-week\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered officials to begin mass vaccinations next week and to open up the inoculation program to all Russians. \u201cI ask you to start\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,24,106],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7576"}],"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=7576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7577,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7576\/revisions\/7577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}