MOSCOW, 14 Mar-RIA Novosti. Military attaches from 50 countries, as well as their family members, were vaccinated against coronavirus with the Russian Sputnik V vaccine, said Alexander Kshimovsky, head of the Main Department for International Military Cooperation of the Russian Defense Ministry.
"About 300 military attaches and their family members from 50 countries decided to conduct vaccination events by Sputnik V in order, so to speak, to safely conduct both their own events and some international negotiations, "he said on the program" Military Acceptance "of the Zvezda TV channel.
Mass vaccination by Sputnik is carried out in the Russian army. According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on March 13, the troops have already vaccinated more than 389 thousand soldiers.
As Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu noted earlier, the Russian army has the lowest incidence of a new coronavirus infection in Russia.