Loading ...US To Exclude Travelers Vaccinated With Russia’s Sputnik V Despite Distribution To 70 Countries
“Beginning in November, US rules will exclude Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine as being considered an acceptable vaccine, the Washington Post reports, potentially impacting millions of travelers given that the Russian-produced vaccine could eventually see distribution to 70 other countries.
The Post indicated that for any non-citizen traveling inbound, they must be vaccinated with a shot on either the FDA or World Health Organization (WHO) list of ’emergency use’ approved inoculations.
The United Kingdom also recently imposed travel restrictions which only recognizes specific vaccines as valid, which excludes Sputnik. Though US and international health officials have raised concerns over the manufacturing process utilized in making Sputnik V, Moscow sees the US and global bodies as playing politics over the science.
For example, earlier in the pandemic there were widespread accusations the State Department was waging an ‘infowar’ in Latin America specifically to dissuade countries from receiving Sputnik from Russia.”