The cosmonauts had volunteered to take the vaccine, which is named after the Soviet satellite that triggered the space race.
By REUTERSUpdated: DECEMBER 19, 2020 11:28Russia began vaccinating its cosmonauts and staff on Friday at Star City, the closed town near Moscow that is home to the country's space program, the Roscosmos space corporation said.Russia rolled out the Sputnik V jab to medics and other frontline workers in Moscow earlier this month, and more than 200,000 people have already been vaccinated.Cosmonaunts Nikolai Chub and Oleg Artemyev, a former crew member of the International Space Station, had the first of the two Sputnik V vaccine jabs on Friday, it said.
Russian cosmonauts are taking part in the large-scale vaccination program. Watch the exclusive video from the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Center where cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev @OlegMKS and Nikolai Chub got vaccinated against COVID-19 with the #SputnikV vaccine - @roscosmospic.twitter.com/lc998OgnIK
Olga Minina, head of the local clinic, said the cosmonauts had volunteered to take the vaccine, which is named after Soviet satellite that triggered the space race. It is one of a number of vaccines developed by Russia, and one of two in final phase trials that are yet to be completed.President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he was yet to be inoculated but that he would do so when possible.
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