“Russia in the current conditions maintains a high level of routine vaccination, ensuring, as before, vaccination of 96% of newborns and children,” RIA Novosti quoted Murashko as saying.

As Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko said earlier, mass vaccination of people against coronavirus infection COVID-19 in the country could begin in the fall.

The virologist at the Gamaleya Institute, the head of the Department of Microbiology of Latent Infections Viktor Zuev, in an interview with NSN, noted that vaccination against coronavirus will begin with people at risk.