The first batches of vaccine against coronavirus infection COVID-19 for testing the supply chain have been shipped to all regions of the country, said the head of the Russian Ministry of Health Mikhail Murashko.

“The first samples of the vaccine will have already been delivered by Monday,” he stressed during a conversation with journalists during his visit to the Leningrad Region.

Earlier, the department itself circulated similar information.

"The first batch of the vaccine" Gam-COVID-Vac "(" Sputnik V "), developed by the Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology named after

Gamaleya of the Ministry of Health of Russia has been sent to the regions, ”- stated in the message published shortly before Murashko's speech.

The department also indicated that as part of the pilot delivery, "the logistics chains for the delivery of the vaccine to the constituent entities of Russia, the distribution and organization of vaccination against COVID-19 of citizens from the high-risk group will be worked out."

The release of "Sputnik V" into civilian circulation became known on September 8.

The Ministry of Health then reported that the first batch of the vaccine passed the necessary quality tests in the laboratories of the Federal Service for Surveillance in Healthcare (Roszdravnadzor) and was released into civilian circulation.

Later, the director of the National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology (NITsEM) named after honorary academician N.F.

Gamalei Alexander Gunzburg said that the second batch is already being produced.

According to him, the drug is undergoing control in Roszdravnadzor, the department checks each batch.

Recall that on August 11, it became known that the Russian Ministry of Health registered the world's first vaccine for the prevention of a new coronavirus infection, developed by the N.N.

Gamalei together with the Russian Direct Investment Fund.

The vaccine against coronavirus infection is produced at four sites.

In August, NICEM said that in the future, two more sites will be connected to this work.

Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin shared their impressions after the vaccine was introduced.

They stated that they underwent the procedure normally and did not experience any significant side effects.

As the Ministry of Health said, widespread vaccination against coronavirus in Russia will begin as production scales up and post-registration research data accumulates.

Over the past day, 5488 new cases of coronavirus infection were recorded in 85 regions of Russia.

The operational headquarters reports that in 22.4% of them there are no clinical manifestations of the disease.

In the preceding 24 hours, 5504 new cases of COVID-19 were detected in the Russian Federation, the day before - 5363. In total, 1,057,362 cases were detected in the country.

Since the beginning of the epidemic in Russia, 18,484 deaths (1.75%) have been recorded from complications that developed against the background of coronavirus infection and concomitant diseases.

Over the past day, 119 people have died.

At the same time, 873,535 people (82.61%) recovered on the territory of the Russian Federation, including 5,428 over the last day.

According to the operational headquarters, the regions with the lowest daily growth rates were Moscow, the Moscow and Smolensk regions, the Chechen Republic (0.2% each), the Yamalo-Nenets and Nenets autonomous okrugs, the Chuvash Republic, the Tula region (0.3% each) , as well as Tyva, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Kaluga, Irkutsk, Bryansk, Tambov, Ryazan, Tver and Novosibirsk regions, Bashkiria and Tatarstan (0.4% each).

According to Rospotrebnadzor, to date, 40,268,897 laboratory tests have been carried out in Russia for the presence of a new coronavirus.

It is noted that 356 thousand tests were made per day.

Earlier, Rospotrebnadzor told about the control over the entry of test results for COVID-19 on the portal of state services.

“Since August 1, 2020, more than 100 thousand Muscovites have traveled abroad.

When verifying the questionnaires completed on board the aircraft with the EPGU data, it was found that about 1% of citizens did not enter the test results within three days after arrival, "Moskva 24 reports, citing data from the ministry's press service.

As the department recalled, all citizens who arrived from foreign countries must fill out a questionnaire on board the aircraft before arrival and pass the COVID-19 test by PCR within three days from the date of arrival.