President Putin Bans Mandatory Vaccinations: 'We Are A Free Country'

President Putin BANS Mandatory Vaccinations in Russia: ‘We Are a Free Country’

Sean Adl-Tabatabai

President Vladimir Putin has declared that mandatory vaccinations will never be allowed because Russia is a free country and its people are sovereign.

“No one should be forced to get a jab. Pressure, where people may lose their jobs, is NOT acceptable,” Putin said during a recent speech.

Arabnews.com reports: Putin said Wednesday that some 23 million Russians had received the jab and said the country’s homegrown vaccines were better than foreign alternatives, naming AstraZeneca and Pfizer.

“We are doing fine,” he said.

The 68-year-old leader also addressed widespread vaccine skepticism in the country and urged Russians to listen to “specialists.”

“It is necessary to listen, not to people who understand little about this and spread rumors, but to specialists,” he told Russians, the majority of whom polls show oppose receiving coronavirus jabs.

Putin has in recent months urged Russians to get vaccinated and announced earlier this year he had got the jab, without specifying which one of the country’s four vaccines he had received.

On Wednesday he announced he was inoculated with Sputnik V, the first vaccine registered in Russia.

Officials have been accused of underreporting fatalities, counting only cases when coronavirus was found to be the primary cause of death after autopsy.

Authorities on Tuesday reported 652 coronavirus fatalities, topping a record that was set in December last year.

US Plans Covid-19 Booster Shots 8 Months After Full Vaccination Says Dr Fauci

Niamh Harris

President Biden’s chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci has announced that the US is on track to start the roll out of Covid booster shots.

He said the administration is sticking with its recommendation of administering the booster shots eight months after the completion of the original shots. However, he said, that could change as government experts will remain flexible about the recommendations as additional data comes in.

InfoWars reports: In a Sunday appearance on MSNBC’s “Meet The Press,” Fauci claimed the federal government is taking a “flexible” approach to when Americans will be urged to take a booster shot.

“We’re still planning on eight months. That was the calculation we made,” the NIAID director told host Chuck Todd.

“This rollout will start on the week of September the 20th. But as we’ve said all along, Chuck, in the original statement, that’s the plan that we have, but we are open to data as they come in.”

This comes after Joe Biden called for COVID boosters every 5 months.

“The question raised is, should it be shorter than eight months? Should it be as little as five months? That’s being discussed. I spoke with Dr. Fauci this morning about that,” Biden said Friday.

The boosters still need to be formally approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) before the government pushes them on citizens.