“Currently, 1,810,178 people have been vaccinated against influenza in Russia, which is 1.2% of the population,” the statement said.

Director of the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and the Far East, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Sergei Balakhonov spoke about vaccination against COVID-19 and influenza.

Earlier, State Duma Deputy Doctor of Medical Sciences, Epidemiologist Gennady Onishchenko, in an interview with the NSN, expressed the opinion that the damage from influenza is much greater than from COVID-19.