“As for the entire city, it would be possible, evaluating vaccination in St. Petersburg, comparing vaccination with other subjects, and say that the rates are very good.

We are consistently in the top ten in terms of the share of vaccinated residents of St. Petersburg.

But I can say that the rate that we expected to have on an ongoing basis - about 15 thousand primary vaccinations (per day) - in order to form a layer of not 1.2 million, but more by autumn, we have not yet reached " , - quoted by TASS Lisovets.

He stressed that "it is critical to inform people about the need to get vaccinated."

According to data as of April 21, in Russia, coronavirus infection was detected in another 8271 people in 83 regions per day. The total number of COVID-19 cases recorded in the country increased to 4,727,125.