My experience with Russia s Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine
DW s Sergey Satanovskiy was one of many people who took part in a testing program for the Russian COVID-19 vaccine, Sputnik V. After receiving two shots, he visited his grandmother and came in contact with coronavirus.
Russia s Sputnik V vaccine is already being rolled out
People in Russia are currently being inoculated against COVID-19, even though stage-three trials of the country s Sputnik V vaccine aren t due to be completed until May.
DW s Sergey Satanovskiy was among the volunteers who agreed to test the new vaccine and report back in December what it was like to get his first shot and three weeks later his second, the Sputnik V booster. He was then tested for antibodies following the two inoculations. This is his story: