No alcohol for 2 months, Russia tells coronavirus vaccine recipients

Russia // 10 December, 2020

Rospotrebnadzor (Russian Federal Service for Surveillance of Consumer Rights) head Anna Popova has repeated recommendations from Deputy Prime Minister, Tatyana Golikova, to avoid alcohol and immunosuppressants for 42 days before and after immunization wit Sputnik V vaccine because the two doses are administered with a 21-day gap between doses, The Moscow Times reports.

Furthermore, Tass reports that about half of the Russian regions have already received supplies of Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine and that delivery to all other regions will begin on 10 December.

Staff of medical establishments, teachers, social workers and people with chronic illnesses will be the first to be vaccinated.

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