More than 700 thousand people have been vaccinated against coronavirus in Moscow. This was announced on Monday, March 8, by the deputy mayor of the capital Anastasia Rakova.
“Today it (vaccination – Ed.) Is going very well, more than 700 thousand people have been vaccinated since the beginning of the campaign, from 10 to 15 thousand are vaccinated daily. [человек]”, – she said on the air of the TV channel” Russia-24 “.
On March 5, Viktor Zakharov, Head of the Department of Mathematical Modeling of Energy Systems of St. Petersburg State University, Head of the Center for Intelligent Logistics of St. Petersburg State University, said that successful vaccination would avoid an increase in the incidence of COVID-19 in the country. In his opinion, Russia will be able to reach the level of percentage growth of 0.1% at the end of the second decade of March, Moscow – at its beginning.
Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), stressed that 40 million citizens could be vaccinated against coronavirus by June 2021.
In turn, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russian coronavirus vaccines are the safest and most effective in the world. The head of state noted that there is not a single severe side case in the country, except for a temperature increase of 10% on the second day after vaccination, but the level of protection remains high.
Large-scale vaccination against COVID-19 started in Russia on January 18. Citizens are offered to be vaccinated with Sputnik V, the first registered coronavirus vaccine in the Russian Federation and in the world, created by the National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology named after V.I. N.F. Gamalei.
All relevant information on the situation with the coronavirus is available on the websites of stopcoronavirus.rf and accessvsem.rf, as well as by the hashtag #WeVotte. Hot line phone: 8 (800) 2000-112.