"Most Citizens Want to Be Vaccinated with the Russian Vaccine." Dodon on the Sputnik V Registration in Moldova

The Party of Socialists chairman, ex-president Igor Dodon, said that the documents for obtaining the Russian vaccine are at the Medicines Agency, and are now pending for the Health Ministry's approval. As Dodon noted on February 5 on the air of the video blog "President Igor Dodon Answers", most of the citizens who he was able to talk to want to be vaccinated with the Russian vaccine. Responding to the question when the Russian Sputnik V vaccine will arrive in the country, Dodon said that the Russian authorities had sent documents for the vaccine registration in Moldova. "The vaccine registration procedure is underway. I know the documents are currently at the Medicines Agency pending the Health Ministry's approval. And, I hope, this vaccine will be registered in Moldova in the very near future," Dodon said. The PSRM head said that during trips to the country's regions, many citizens ask him when the Russian vaccine will arrive. "The overwhelming majority of Moldovan citizens I meet say that they will be vaccinated only with the Russian vaccine. This is not only my opinion, but also the opinion of the majority of Moldovan citizens. Therefore, I believe that the Russian vaccine must necessarily be available for the residents of Moldova," Dodon said. Let us remind you that earlier Dodon said that Russia could provide Moldova with several hundred thousand doses of the Sputnik V vaccine. It should be noted that acting Minister of Health, Secretary of State of the Ministry of Health Tatiana Zatic recently said on TV that the Russian authorities had applied to the Ministry of Health regarding the coronavirus vaccine supply to Moldova. "We received a note verbale from the Foreign Ministry about the possibility of supplying the vaccine from Russia. We informed about the requirements for drugs or vaccines registration in the country," Zatic said, noting that there are two different ways to register vaccines and drugs. Humanitarian aid is processed by the Public Health Agency. And medicines and vaccines intended for the pharmaceutical market by the Medicines Agency. Recall, as the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) office in Moldova, Igor Pokanevych, said in an interview with NM, according to research, today about a third of the population of Moldova is ready to be vaccinated. "Over 30% are ready. Another third has doubts. The key is to give people who have doubts the right arguments: they need to be confident that the vaccine is safe, effective, and that they can get it when they need it. Unfortunately, there is also a third group. This is another 30% of the population who do not want to be vaccinated under any circumstances. This group will be most at risk," Pokanevych said.