Golikova called the vaccination certificate as important as a passport

A CORONAVIRUS vaccination certificate is just as important as a passport - Russia needs to achieve herd immunity as soon as possible. This was stated to journalists by the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Tatyana Golikova, reports TASS.

“A coronavirus vaccination certificate should become as important a document in the lives of our citizens as a passport. And the news from the regions about records for daily vaccination is very encouraging. But let me remind you that we need to achieve herd immunity in a short time, so as not to delay the development of the pandemic in our country, ”she said.

According to Golikova, the situation with the spread of covid-19 has become more complicated in five regions of Russia over the past week. These are Amur, Irkutsk, Novosibirsk, Ryazan, Tomsk regions. The situation has improved in two regions: in the republics of Kalmykia and Tyva.

The level of collective immunity in Russia by November 12 was 49%, follows from the updated data of the operational headquarters. Over the week, it grew by only 1% - on November 5, the figure was 48%. In total, according to the operational headquarters, 63.1 million injections of the first component of the vaccine were made in Russia, 57.9 million complete vaccination cycles were carried out (the operational headquarters does not separate in statistics the number of those who were vaccinated for the first time and the number of revaccinated).