Putin noted that the work on lifting restrictions in the regions should be continued, but "it is necessary to make decisions only weighed, careful, accurate, as before, relying on the recommendations of experts."

“Because unreasonable haste, as the situation in some constituent entities of the Federation has shown, is fraught with a repeated increase in the number of cases,” the president said.

Earlier it was reported that the mass industrial production of the coronavirus vaccine, developed by the Vector Research Center, will begin in late 2020 - early 2021.

The first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Education and Science, Doctor of Medical Sciences Gennady Onishchenko, commented in an interview with FAN on the statement by WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus about the intensification of the coronavirus pandemic in the world.