ADIn Russia, some State Department personnel appealed to Moscow for doses of its Russian-made Sputnik V vaccine after Washington could not promise the delivery of U.S.-made vaccine doses in the near future, officials said. “The president is committed to getting us through it as quickly as possible.”Some diplomats expressed sympathy for State Department leaders during an unprecedented crisis. ADThe State Department, which has around 75,000 employees, has received roughly 73,000 doses but declined to say how many people it has vaccinated. The Pentagon has administered more than 800,000 first doses of vaccine, with 210,000 of those service members receiving second doses, the department said last week. “Making these vaccines is also time-consuming.”But that doesn’t diminish the responsibility the department has to diplomats serving abroad, he said.

Source: Washington Post February 17, 2021 17:59 UTC