“In general, more than 65.59 million people (45.3% of the population) have been vaccinated in the country,” the statement said on the agency’s website.

It is noted that in the period from November 25 to December 2, "a low incidence of influenza and SARS is recorded in the territory of Russia."

Earlier, a doctor of the Voronezh Center for Medical Prevention, Olga Bachurina, in an interview with the online publication argumenti.ru, told how to distinguish flu from other acute respiratory viral infections.

According to her, influenza differs from other acute respiratory viral infections by more pronounced intoxication. Severe headaches, lacrimation, redness, and pain in the eyeballs are possible. The most important symptom is a very sharp increase in temperature.