The American filmmaker Oliver Stone dit has received Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine against coronavirus even though the country’s mass release does not cover its age group.
Russia launched the national distribution of Covid-19 vaccines late last week among health, education workers and other professionals aged 18 to 60. they have the highest mortality rates.
“I received a vaccine a few days ago. I don’t know if it will work, but I’ve heard good things about the Russian vaccine, “Stone, 74, told Russia’s state network.
Stone, who had been of tour Russia’s nuclear power plants for their upcoming documentary on climate change said in an interview on Monday that they plan to receive the second shot.
“I have hope. It’s a very good vaccine, I don’t understand why it is ignored in the West “, Stone, who filmed a series of flatteries interviews with Putin ahead of the re-election of the Russian president in 2018, according to a dubbed translation.
Sputnik V developers said they launched this fall essays among 150 volunteers over the age of 60 to determine their safety.
About 320,000 doses have been distributed as part of the mass vaccination campaign so far, according to the developers of Sputnik V. Russia’s sovereign wealth fund that finances and markets the vaccine said more than 200,000 Russians have been inoculated out of post-registration trials.
The developers said Monday that data obtained three weeks after volunteers received the first of the doses of Sputnik V showed 91.4% efficacy and 100% against severe cases.
Russia has confirmed some 2.7 million infections and nearly 47,500 deaths since the start of the pandemic.