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Moscow Expands Covid-19 Vaccine Campaign as Drug Nears Approval
- Hospital, city government employees offered Gamaleya vaccine
- Russia plans to register world’s first vaccine by Aug. 12
A medical volunteer speaks with a patient inside a hospital in Moscow on May 13.
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Some medical staff and city government workers in Moscow are being offered the opportunity to inoculate against the coronavirus as Russia is poised to register what it says is the world’s first Covid-19 vaccine.
At least one hospital is preparing lists of employees who want to be vaccinated with the drug developed by Moscow’s Gamaleya Institute, according to a doctor who received an invitation. A city government official said similar notices inviting volunteers for inoculation had been sent out to staff there.