‘I don’t have a choice’: Russians scramble to get Covid vaccine amid new restrictions

With infections at highest since January, country is introducing curbs for non-vaccinated

Russia has finally admitted it has a vaccination problem - but with an explosion" of new cases driving the country's daily toll to its highest since January, the question is whether that public realisation has come too late.

Just 11% of Russia's 146 million population is fully vaccinated - whether due to vaccine skepticism, doubts about Sputnik or other Russian-made vaccines, or nihilism", as a Kremlin spokesperson has suggested.