GET ME REWRITE: Putin's Russia can't get the virus under control

 

Charts from Worldometers

Headline from New York Times, 10/20/2021

Sound familiar?

Russian-made coronavirus vaccines, including Sputnik V and the one-dose Sputnik Light, are widely available country, but only 45 million of the country’s 146 million people have been fully vaccinated. Scholars attribute the hesitancy to low levels of trust in the authorities, who have sent conflicting messages about the pandemic since it began last year.

That's an alarmingly low 31%.