ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 12月8日 08時30分

The Kremlin is offering Russians free vaccines, but will they take them?

Russia made its coronavirus vaccine available free in Moscow in recent days to teachers, medical workers and social-service employees younger than 61. But even more than in the West, a lack of trust is hobbling Russia’s rollout of a vaccine. The country’s scientists may well have made great strides in battling the virus, but many Russians are not ready to believe it.

Distrust of the government is so widespread that 59% of Russians said in October they would not get a shot, even if it was voluntary and free of charge. The government, in part, has itself to blame. President Vladimir Putin proclaimed in August that Russia had become the first country in the world to approve a vaccine for the novel coronavirus, to great fanfare in the state media, even though the drug had not been tested in a large-scale medical trial.

Putin said the vaccine worked “effectively enough,” given the health emergency, but critics charged that he was dangerously short-circuiting the long established process for developing safe vaccines.

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