Vladimir Putin visits a hospital in Moscow
When a vaccination centre opened in a high-end department store on Red Square at the start of the year, Moscow residents were queuing up to get their dose of the Russian-produced Sputnik V.
Now that queue has died down to a trickle, and shoppers passing by the pop-up vaccination hub on a recent weekday afternoon said they were in no rush to get the jab.
“I’m not even thinking about it,” said Svetlana Sharshunovich, 45, strolling through the Soviet-era GUM store with her son. “We don’t know enough about the virus or the vaccine. I take my vitamins and I live healthily, that’s enough.”