He announced this during the scientific and practical conference "Medical rehabilitation in COVID-19: experience and achievements."

"Almost 4 million people received vaccinations," RIA Novosti quotes him.

At the same time, he added that there is a pronounced downward trend in the number of new cases of coronavirus in Russia.

The head of the department of the Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology of the Gamaleya Center, Professor Alexander Butenko, in an interview with URA.RU, assessed the prospects for creating a vaccine against all variants of the coronavirus.