"It is necessary to vaccinate the Crimeans as much as possible so that the holiday season passes without incident, so that everyone can earn money," RIA Novosti Aksyonov quotes.

He also called on the residents of Crimea to continue to observe the mask regime and social distance.

Earlier, the Governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhaev, at a hardware meeting in the city government gave instructions to start vaccination against coronavirus infection from February 8.