Russia's Covid nightmare driven by vaccine rejection

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Russia's Covid nightmare driven by vaccine rejection
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More than 1,000 people are dying in Russia every day, and in Vologda only one in four is vaccinated.

This information is regularly updated but may not reflect the latest totals for each country.

The scale of new infections and deaths has alarmed authorities so much that all workplaces are to shut down for a week from the start of November and Moscow is closing non-essential services for 11 days from next Thursday. For the medical teams in the Vologda hospital as elsewhere in the country, there is a real concern about the uptake of the Covid vaccines."I am very worried about this," says Pavel Sheprinski, head of Hospital Number One. "The more unvaccinated people we have in our hospital, the more patients we have."Pavel SheprinskiAt one of the vaccine centres set up in a large sports hall in the city, there was just a trickle of people waiting to get jabbed on Wednesday afternoon.

The governor also sharply criticised those opposed to the vaccine who have taken to social media to spread anti-vaccine messages across the region.

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