A medical worker fills a syringe with Sputnik V (Gam-COVID-Vac) vaccine as she prepares to vaccinate a Russian Army service member at a clinic in the city of Rostov-On-Don, in southern Russia Dec. 22, 2020. (Sergey Pivovarov/REUTERS)
Russian military medics have begun the second stage of vaccination of the Northern Fleet personnel, defence officials announced Thursday.
Thousands of servicemen and civilian employees of the Northern Fleet, a key element of Russia’s strategic nuclear triad, are expected to receive the second dose of the Sputnik-V Russian COVID-19 vaccine, three weeks after they were inoculated with the first dose, officials said in a press release.