“I got vaccinated,” Volodin said.

He added that the number of MPs who also decided to get vaccinated is increasing.

Earlier, Volodin said that one of the State Duma deputies is in intensive care due to coronavirus infection, and more than a third of the deputies have been ill.

In December, after a coronavirus disease, State Duma deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Valentin Shurchanov died, he was seriously ill for three weeks.

Also, due to the consequences of the infection, a deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Vakha Agayev, who served as deputy chairman of the committee for the financial market, died in September.