Head of the National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology.

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Gamalei Alexander Gunzburg said that Russia will be able to cope with the coronavirus pandemic by the summer of 2021 if most of the country's population is vaccinated. 

He noted that Russian laboratories in aggregate can produce up to 80 million doses of vaccine per year. 

“And we will get a good percentage of protected people in our country, which will create protective population immunity.

And this will stop the epidemiological process, that is, the uncontrolled spread of infection in the population, ”Gintsburg said in an interview with Izvestia.

He noted that before the start of mass vaccination in the country, "constant battles and losses in the fight against this pathogen are possible."

In an interview with RIA Novosti, Gunzburg clarified that in order to take the situation under control, it is necessary to vaccinate two-thirds of the population.

He also confirmed the safety of the vaccine, noting that no side effects with serious complications were observed in the subjects.

“Temperature up to 38 ° C, sometimes redness, muscle pain at the injection site, which is typical of all vaccine preparations that have been on the market for decades and are included in the National Vaccination Schedule,” he explained to Izvestia.

We will remind, in August, Russia was the first in the world to register a vaccine against coronavirus - "Sputnik V".

Meanwhile, the head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova said that from January 1, 2020, a little more than 0.6% of the entire population of Russia had had coronavirus infection.

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She also said that the Rospotrebnadzor study made it possible to establish the range of Russians who are immune to coronavirus.

“Since the end of June, we have started monitoring population immunity.

Today we see a range from 4 to 50% in different subjects, "RIA Novosti quoted her as saying.

In addition, Popova announced that the Vector State Research Center will complete clinical trials of another vaccine on September 30.

“Our colleagues have concentrated on one vaccine - the peptide vaccine, which is now being completed in the part of clinical trials.

The final day is September 30, ”said the head of Rospotrebnadzor.

In Russia, over the past 24 hours, 5185 new cases of coronavirus infection were detected, 2328 people recovered, 51 died.

For the entire time, 1,030,690 cases of COVID-19 were recorded in the country, 843,277 cases recovered, 17,871 patients died.

In turn, the former chief sanitary doctor of the Russian Federation, State Duma deputy Gennady Onishchenko expressed the opinion that Russia is the only country that has a vaccine against coronavirus infection.

He noted that he did not agree with the wording according to which Russia “managed” to create a drug for COVID-19.

“This is the pattern of that huge foundation on which we all stand,” RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.

Earlier, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that there is no second wave of coronavirus in Russia, but the first wave is being observed in different regions.

He recalled that some regions, like Moscow, have passed the main peak of the coronavirus, others have just approached it, and third regions are at the epicenter of the pandemic.

According to Anastasia Rakova, Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Social Development, almost 100,000 people were vaccinated against influenza in four days, about a third of them at mobile stations.

“Already 100 thousand people have been vaccinated in the first days of the campaign - this is 1.3 times more than last year.

We see an increased demand among residents, a particular excitement is observed near mobile vaccination points.

More than 33 thousand Muscovites have already been vaccinated there, which is almost twice as much as in the same period last year.

Against the background of such high demand, we decided to open additional points in order to minimize the waiting time for vaccinations.

Ten additional vaccination points have already begun their work from today, ”she said.

Earlier, Sergei Sobyanin commented on rumors about the possibility of imminent introduction of a quarantine regime in the capital due to the epidemic, and called for "filtering information flows and living real life."

The mayor stressed that the authorities will react to the situation depending on its development.