“Answering the questions of his colleagues from foreign countries, Sergei Shoigu said that he had recently been vaccinated with a domestic vaccine against a new coronavirus infection,” TASS reports.

In addition, on September 4, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin told Russian leader Vladimir Putin that he had been vaccinated against the coronavirus.

Earlier it was also reported that the head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov, Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin and LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky were vaccinated against COVID-19.