ORYOL, Russia (Reuters) - Ambulance attendant Roman Stebakov has come face-to-face with COVID-19 many times - but he'd rather take his chances with the disease than get himself injected with Russia's Sputnik V vaccine.
By Polina Nikolskaya and Maxim Shemetov ORYOL, Russia (Reuters) - Ambulance attendant Roman Stebakov has come face-to-face with COVID-19 many times - but he d rather take his chances with the disease than get himself injected with Russia s Sputnik V vaccine. I won t get vaccinated until, I don t know, they break me and vaccinate me by force. I don t see the point in it, there are no guarantees it s safe, says the paramedic from Oryol, 300 km (185 miles) south of Moscow. Outside one of the city s hospitals, a young woman, Alina, is clutching a bunch of papers certifying her grandmother s death. The old woman was unvaccinated and died of COVID-19 three weeks after being admitted. But despite her loss, Alina, 26, says she won t take the vaccine because she has heard too many scare stories. There s not enough data, not enough checks. Their attitudes help explain why the first nation in the world to approve a COVID-19 vaccine - and then export it to more than 70 countries - is struggling to
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Ambulance attendant Roman Stebakov has come face-to-face with COVID-19 many times - but he'd rather take his chances with the disease than get himself injected with Russia's Sputnik V vaccine.
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