“Today several figures sounded ... the fact that we can in the first year inoculate 60% of the total population ... this is a very serious achievement,” RIA Novosti quotes her as saying.

As Popova noted, immunization should be organized so that people are immune by the beginning of the epidemic season - by autumn.

Earlier, Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova said that mass vaccination of Russians against coronavirus will start on Monday, January 18.