The other day, the Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, meeting with Moscow activists, announced a high price of vaccination in Europe against the backdrop of the same service in Russia. We checked whether the truth corresponds to his words.

Video recording of a fragment of the meeting appeared on the morning of May 21 in personal blog capital mayor. Talking to the activists of the north-east of Moscow about the pace of vaccination in the city, Sobyanin said:

“We are sick, we continue to get sick. People continue to die. And at the same time they do not want to vaccinate. Moreover, if there, in Europe, € 1500–2000 costs a vaccine, but here it costs for free. Not only are we vaccinating in clinics and vaccinate in shopping centers, now we are vaccinated in the parks. Now we pay another 1000 rubles to pensioners so that they can go to these 1000 in stores, if only they would be vaccinated. No one. Well, relatively nobody ... "

You can understand the Moscow mayor - the rate of vaccination in the capital and the country as a whole is far from the ideal. On graphics It can be seen how the lag of the Russian indicator from the Middle European grows with every week. However, what about the price of vaccinations? IN Moscowas in all Russia, vaccinated from coronavirus can be really free. As for Europe, the EU countries of the vaccine, of course, go not for just like that: those They pay $ 2.15 (about € 1.76) for each dose of Oxford - Astrazeneca, $ 8.50 (€ 7) for Johnson & Johnson products, $ 18 (€ 14.8) for Moderna, and Pfizer vaccine - BIONTECH for the region Grown In recent months from € 12 to € 19.5. Relative exotic for European countries still remain the Russian "satellite V" and the Chinese Sinopharm, which cost, for example, Hungary in € 8.2 and € 30.8 per dose, respectively.

However, this does not concern the population, since in all countries of Europe the government decided to vaccinate for free. Among these are all 27 states - members of the European Union (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Denmark, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Finland, France, Croatia, Czech Republic, Sweden, Estonia), who had recently left him United Kingdomas well as other countries: Albania, Andorra, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Vatican, Icelandpartially recognized Kosovo, Liechtenstein, Moldova, Monaco, Norway, San Marino, Northern Macedonia, Serbia, Ukraine, Montenegro And Switzerland.

Moreover, in San Marino, having vaccinated the entire population, the authorities went on and announced the start vaccine tourism - A foreigner can come and get a full dose of the Russian “satellite V”. True, not free, but for € 50. In some countries, vaccination is covered with compulsory medical insurance. It should be noted that in the case of coronavirus, this is not a one -time action - usually Various seasonal vaccinations in Europe are available to many categories of the population for free.

Thus, the mayor of Moscow Sergei Sobyanin in his speech made a mistake: Europeans can vaccinate from coronavirus in his country for free, and not for a lot of money.