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Health

Putin says hopes Russia will reach COVID-19 herd immunity in 2022

Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures as he attends his annual end-of-year news conference in Moscow, Russia, December 23, 2021. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he hoped Russia could vaccinate enough people to reach collective COVID-19 immunity next year, as he urged more Russians to get inoculated.

(Reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin; Writing by Olzhas Auyezov; Editing by Alison Williams)

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