He stated that "Sputnik V has shown the same effectiveness in all age categories."

"There were at first doubts that the effectiveness in people with a great age, 60+, perhaps the effectiveness of the vaccine will be less ... Nothing of the kind," RIA Novosti Gintsburg quotes.

He also said that "the duration of the action of this vaccine preparation will be very long."

“We hope that it will be two years or more,” said the head of the Gamaleya Center.

Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin commented on the situation on the market for vaccines against coronavirus infection COVID-19.

URA.RU reported that a professor at the Belozersky Institute of Moscow State University, Alexei Agranovsky, gave a forecast regarding a pandemic in Russia.