VLADIVOSTOK: Russia launched a mass coronavirus vaccination campaign on Monday (Tuesday in Manila) in a bid to end its outbreak without re-imposing a new nationwide lockdown.

Residents of the far eastern city of Vladivostok queued to receive the country’s homemade Sputnik V jab early Monday after President Vladimir Putin last week tasked officials with making it available to the country’s entire population of 146 million.

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