MOSCOW, December 18. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin does not have any exclusive vaccines, he is using the drugs available to regular citizens, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday in an interview with the Komsomolskaya Pravda radio station when asked why there is no separate COVID-19 vaccine for Putin.

"The head of state gets the same vaccines and the same drugs that are made for all Russian citizens," Peskov assured. "No one would ever develop a separate vaccine for just one person, even it’s the head of state."

On Thursday, Putin told an annual news conference that he had not been vaccinated against COVID-19 yet. "The specialists say that the vaccines that now enter public consumption are provided for citizens of a certain age area. And the vaccines have not reached people like me yet. I reiterate, I am a law-abiding person in this sense, so I have not taken this vaccine yet. But I will definitely do it, as soon as it becomes possible," Putin said.

"It [the vaccination] requires big data, so special trials are held on certain age groups," Peskov said. "And so far, there is no exact data on the age group over 60-65, it’s just beginning to come in."

Russia registered two coronavirus vaccines: one developed by the Gamaleya Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology and one developed by the State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology "Vector". The third vaccine, developed by the Chumakov Federal Scientific Center for Research and Development of Immune and Biological Products, could be registered shortly.