"Vaccination in nursing homes will begin on December 28 using the BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine," TASS reports.

Earlier, the European Medicines Agency authorized the use of Pfizer and BioNTech vaccines in the European Union for persons over 16 years old.

On December 17, the prime ministers of Belgium and Luxembourg, Alexander De Cro and Xavier Bettel, went into self-isolation in connection with the detection of coronavirus in French President Emmanuel Macron.