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New York Times: World watches as Russia and Britain lead the way in mass vaccinations

Published Dec. 6, 2020 at 9:04 am

A nurse shows the Sputnik V (Gam-COVID-Vac) vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a clinic in Moscow on Dec. 5, 2020, amid the ongoing coronavirus disease pandemic.

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Across the world, mass vaccination campaigns are beginning, or just about to.

Russia began its campaign on Saturday. Britain will start its campaign on Dec. 8. The United States hopes to start large-scale vaccinations this month, as does Turkey. Hundreds of thousands of people have already been vaccinated in China, and thousands in the United Arab Emirates and elsewhere.