Murashko called the share of Russians vaccinated against COVID-19

In RUSSIA, about 53% of people have received their first vaccine against CORONAVIRUS. This was announced by Minister of HEALTH Mikhail Murashko, Interfax reports.

“To date, more than 62 million people have already been vaccinated with the first component - this is 53%. But we must remember that in connection with the spread of a new strain, revaccination is also required in order to ensure a high level of antibodies,” Murashko said.

Earlier, the operational headquarters for combating the spread of covid-19 published data from November 5, according to which the first component of one of the vaccines was used 60 million times. This number includes both primary and re-vaccination with the first component of Sputnik V, CoviVac, EpiVacCorona and Sputnik Light. At that time, 57.2 million people completed the vaccination course with two-component vaccines or the one-component Sputnik Light vaccine.

On November 6, the Minister of Health said that due to the measures taken by the authorities to stimulate vaccination, including due to non-working days and mandatory vaccination for certain groups of citizens, the number of people wishing to be vaccinated has increased four to five times.