“Surely it will remain“ Sputnik ”, by analogy, for example, with the BCG vaccine for children, where the letter“ M ”is added.

As I understand it, (means) "small".

Maybe there will be a letter "M" in this vaccine, "RIA Novosti quotes him.

Earlier, in the capital's operational headquarters for control and monitoring of the situation with COVID-19, they said that in Moscow the number of children infected with coronavirus exceeded 180 thousand.

In July, Vitaly Zverev, microbiologist, scientific director of the Mechnikov Research Institute of Vaccines and Serums, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in an interview with URA.RU, emphasized the importance of achieving population immunity to coronavirus in the world.