Murashko expects collective immunity to COVID-19 by July

"According to supply plans and vaccination plans, we plan that the completion (of the formation of population immunity. -

) will take place in the first half of the year, well, maybe with the seizure of the month of July," RIA Novosti quotes him.

According to Murashko, the production of vaccines in the country is increasing.

Earlier, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova said that in Russia, collective immunity to coronavirus can be formed in August 2021, provided that the current rate of vaccination against COVID-19 is maintained.

The chief freelance pulmonologist of the Ministry of Health in the Central Federal District, Andrei Malyavin, said in an interview with Moscow 24 that the coronavirus infection pandemic in Russia could end by mid-2021 thanks to vaccination and the formation of herd immunity.