Russian doctors refuse to take Russian vaccine against COVID-19

Most Russian doctors would not be vaccinated with the new Russian vaccine against the global pandemic called COVID-19, which has claimed the lives of over 760 thousand people in the world.

All of this, due to lack of reliable data and an extremely rapid process of approval, showed a study conducted with three thousand medical workers, reports the statement.

Russia has announced that the world's first anti-coronavirus vaccine will be ready for exploitation in late August, and that doctors will be among the first to receive it on voluntary grounds, Television broadcast.

The Sputnik V vaccine, named after the first satellite launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, has not yet passed its final phase of testing, and some scientists fear that Russia is willing to sacrifice security for the sake of prestige.

A study of 3,040 doctors found that 52 percent were unwilling to take the vaccine, and 24.4 percent agreed to be vaccinated.

Only a fifth of the respondents said they would recommend the vaccine to patients, colleagues, and friends.

The doctors' opinion is split, where a number of Russians say they are afraid to take the vaccine, while others agree with the government that the suspicion of Western experts is motivated by jealousy.