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Sputnik V vaccine

A Palestinian security officer stands next to a truck carrying Sputnik V vaccines, donated by the United Arab Emirates, at a cold storage warehouse in Gaza City on January 26, 2022. (Mahmud HAMS / AFP)
January 26, 2022, 4:58 pm
Abbas rival Dahlan arranges delivery of 1 million vaccine doses to Gaza
UAE-funded shipment of Russia’s Sputnik V is largest single batch of vaccines to arrive in Hamas-run enclave; cargo arrives via border crossing with Egypt
By Agencies and ToI Staff
In this July 12, 2021 file photo, a medical worker administers a shot of Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine at a vaccination center in Gostinny Dvor, a huge exhibition place in Moscow, Russia. (AP/Pavel Golovkin)
November 15, 2021, 10:20 am
Israel delays entry of tourists vaccinated with Russia’s Sputnik V
Visitors who received the shot will be allowed in starting December 1, two weeks later than scheduled; still subject to serological test
By ToI Staff
Vials containing Russia's Sputnik V vaccine for COVID-19 are seen at the San Marino State Hospital, in San Marino, April 9, 2021. (Antonio Calanni/AP)
October 27, 2021, 10:07 am
Bucking FDA standards, Israel to allow entry for tourists with Russian vaccine
Health Ministry director says arrivals who have received Sputnik V shots will need to take a serology test to confirm antibodies
By ToI Staff
Gravediggers carry a coffin with a body of a patient who died of coronavirus at the Novo-Yuzhnoye cemetery, which serves as one of the burial grounds for those who died of the coronavirus outside Omsk, Russia, Oct. 22, 2021 (AP Photo)
October 23, 2021, 1:39 pm
Russia sets new death, infection records as COVID-19 surge persists
Russians to stay away from work next week as country tries to stem infections; only about one-third of population is vaccinated amid high levels of skepticism, misinformation
By Jim Heintz
Travelers are seen at Ben Gurion Airport, on July 19, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
October 21, 2021, 5:54 pm
Israel to allow vaccinated or recovered tourists to enter starting November 1
But government says no entry for travelers coming from ‘red’ countries or from places seeing outbreak of new AY4.2 strain; Russian vaccine not okayed, for now
By ToI Staff
In this July 12, 2021 file photo, a medical worker administers a shot of Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine at a vaccination center in Gostinny Dvor, a huge exhibition place in Moscow, Russia. (AP/Pavel Golovkin)
October 19, 2021, 6:31 pm
Under pressure, Israel said set to let in tourists with Russia’s Sputnik vaccine
Move said to be opposed by health officials, but pushed by political leadership ahead of meeting between Bennett and Putin; visitors would still need to undergo antibody screening
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: The Facebook app is shown on a smart phone in Surfside, Florida, April 23, 2021. (Wilfredo Lee/AP)
August 11, 2021, 7:52 am
Facebook bans Russia-based firm behind Pfizer, AstraZeneca smear campaign
Hundreds of accounts on platform and on Instagram traced back to Fazze, a marketing company working for an unknown client; one post claimed shots turn one into a chimpanzee
By David Klepper
Indigenous nurse of the Misak ethnic group Anselmo Tunubala, 49, inoculates an elderly indigenous woman with a Sinovac vaccine against COVID-19 in the Guambia indigenous reservation, rural area of Silvia, department of Cauca, Colombia, on April 15, 2021 (Luis ROBAYO / AFP)
April 25, 2021, 5:03 am
One billion COVID-19 vaccine doses administered globally
But inoculation is still largely a privilege of high-income countries, which are home to 16% of world’s population but have given 47% of doses
By AFP
A vial with Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine in a medical room, in Moscow, Russia, December 5, 2020 (Pavel Golovkin/AP)
March 16, 2021, 8:36 am
Russia said to press Israel to recognize its Sputnik V vaccine
Moscow wants travelers who received its homemade inoculation to skip quarantine when visiting, but Israel currently doesn’t accept any vaccine done abroad, demanding antibody test
By ToI Staff
Palestinians from the Ministry of Health receive a shipment of the Russian Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine doses sent by the United Arab Emirates, after the Egyptian authorities allowed entry to Gaza through the Rafah crossing in the southern Gaza Strip, on February 21, 2021. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
March 10, 2021, 8:28 pm
At request of Abbas foe, UAE will send another 40,000 Russian vaccines to Gaza
Shipment arranged by exiled Fatah chief Mohammad Dahlan, whose movement will offer 20,000 of the vaccines to the Palestinian Authority
By Aaron Boxerman
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting via video conference in Moscow, Russia, December 23, 2020. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
March 9, 2021, 6:57 pm
US says Russia spreading vaccine ‘disinformation’; Kremlin calls claim ‘absurd’
‘Very clear that Russia is up to its old tricks,’ State Department monitor says, accusing Moscow of being behind 4 online platforms involved in anti-vaccination campaign
By AFP and ToI Staff
A medical worker holds a vial with Russia's Sputnik V (Gam-COVID-Vac) vaccine against the coronavirus disease at a vaccination point at the GUM department store in Moscow, Russia, January 18, 2021. (Alexander NEMENOV / AFP)
March 9, 2021, 4:20 pm
In first for an EU country, Russia to make its Sputnik V vaccine in Italy
Deal signed for production of 10 million doses this year, starting in July
By Colleen Barry and DARIA LITVINOVA
An employee works with a coronavirus vaccine at the Nikolai Gamaleya National Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology in Moscow, Russia, August 6, 2020. (Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr/Russian Direct Investment Fund via AP)
March 9, 2021, 3:26 pm
Sputnik V vaccine was met with skepticism; now Russia struggles to make enough
Moscow enjoying scientific prestige amid requests for its COVID-19 inoculation shots from across the globe; can it deliver the millions of orders on time?
By DARIA LITVINOVA
A Syrian worker disinfects a street to prevent the spread of coronavirus in Damascus, Syria, August 3, 2020. (SANA via AP)
February 25, 2021, 5:02 pm
Syria gets vaccines from ‘friendly country’ after Israel said to pay for doses
Minister says healthcare workers will start getting inoculations next week; development come days after release of Israeli woman, reportedly bartered for funding of Russian vaccine
By ToI Staff
A Palestinian health workers stores the first arriving shipment of doses of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine for COVID-19 coronavirus disease in a preservation refrigerator in Gaza City on February 17, 2021. (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)
February 20, 2021, 11:18 am
Russia registers third COVID-19 vaccine
As opposed to existing Sputnik V and EpiVacCorona shots, the new CoviVac jab produced by a state-run research center uses an inactive virus
By AFP
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