My experience with Russia’s Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine
01 February 2021 |
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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 contracted the coronavirus.
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