“We haven’t got together yet, we are preparing certain proposals that could be considered at the first meeting,” Medvedev said during a meeting with the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Alexander Sergeev.
Medvedev said that this meeting of the commission will take place "in a relatively short term."
He noted that “given the fact that scientists do not make any over-optimistic predictions about future infections, it is clear that infections were constantly near a person, now the world is fighting a new coronavirus infection, it is clear that other problems are also possible. of this order. "
"We must prepare for this, bearing in mind both medical support and a number of scientific studies that are related to the definition of everything that infections entail, as well as their origin, the possibility of designing vaccines that are effective," the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council stressed.
In turn, the press secretary of the Russian leader Dmitry Peskov explained that "this is an interdepartmental commission, and in his position it is Dmitry Medvedev who can ensure coordination of the work of different departments to prevent the threat of new infections."
As a Kremlin spokesman noted, "the danger of infection is indeed systemic."
Earlier, Russian leader Vladimir Putin instructed to create a commission of the Russian Security Council on protection against new infections.