Moscow delivers Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine to clinics

Health workers and teachers have priority in first mass immunisation programme

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Moscow's coronavirus taskforce said on Saturday that it was distributing the Sputnik V vaccine to 70 clinics, marking Russia's first mass Covid-19 immunisation.

The taskforce said the Russian-made vaccine would be made available first to doctors and other medical workers, teachers and social workers because they ran the highest risk of exposure to the disease.