Assad vaccinated with the Russian Sputnik V vaccine

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was vaccinated against CORONAVIRUS with the Russian drug Sputnik V. This was announced by the country's ambassador to RUSSIA, Riyad Haddad, Interfax reports.

“Yes, I was vaccinated,” Haddad said, answering a related question.

In March, Assad and his wife, Asma al-Assad, contracted the coronavirus.

The use of Sputnik V in Syria was approved on February 22. A day earlier, The New York Times reported on an agreement allegedly reached between Israel and Syria: the Syrian side will release a detained Israeli woman who illegally crossed the border, and in exchange, the Israeli side will buy a batch of vaccine from Russia and transfer it to Damascus. Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov did not comment on the messages that appeared on this topic.