Murashko estimated the time frame for achieving herd immunity from COVID

Vaccination against coronavirus in Russia is going according to plan, Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said, Interfax reports.

The Minister did not name the number of those vaccinated to date. When asked whether collective immunity would be formed in Russia in September, the minister answered in the affirmative: "It will be provided."

Putin proposed to create points of vaccination against COVID-19 in holiday villages Politics

On May 6, Russian President Vladimir Putin , at a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova, demanded an increase in the rate of vaccination. He called for sending laboratories, mobile and mobile testing and vaccination stations exactly where people are, including holiday villages and gardening associations.

According to Golikova, 13.4 million people were vaccinated with the first components of the vaccine, and 9.4 million with both components (that is, completely).