Sputnik Light vaccine ampoule . File photoSt. Petersburg, January 23 The Sputnik Light coronavirus vaccine, which ended in the Pskov region, has already been shipped, a new batch will soon arrive in the region, Governor Mikhail Vedernikov said. The day before, he said, that this drug in the Pskov region is completely over. The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation announced that it had organized the urgent delivery of an additional 11.5 thousand doses of the Sputnik Light vaccine to the Pskov region, the availability of the vaccine will be restored in the region on Monday. jpg» />The Sputnik Light vaccine has ended in the Pskov region»I talked on this issue with the Minister of Health of the Russian Federation Mikhail Albertovich Murashko. We agreed that in the very near future a new batch of the vaccine will come to the region (the vaccine has already been shipped and is leaving for the region),» wrote the head of the Pskov region on his Instagram account. According to him, the lack of the Sputnik Light vaccine is due, in particular, to the fact that at the end of 2021, about 45 thousand doses of coronavirus vaccines delivered to the Pskov region became unusable due to a broken freezer installation. View this post on Instagram
«The service check is nearing completion I will inform you about the results later,» Vedernikov promised. He recalled that, given the current epidemiological situation, any registered two-component vaccine can be used for revaccination. Vedernikov also added that against the backdrop of a “very slow and difficult” recovery from coronavirus, combined with an increase in the incidence of inpatient and outpatient treatment, more than 4 thousand residents of the Pskov region are being treated. As reported, the freezer where the Sputnik V and Sputnik drugs were stored Light», according to preliminary data, failed due to a manufacturing defect of the equipment.