The Russian Ministry of Education has recommended that schools go on vacation between the May holidays, said the head of the department, Sergei Kravtsov.

“We recommend that schools do not work, only kindergartens and duty groups work as needed,” TASS quoted him as saying.

Duty groups from 4 to 7 May will be organized for the children of those parents who will go to work these days.

According to Kravtsov, the decision "will not affect the quality of the educational process."

According to the minister, in May, the repetition of the material mostly takes place.

Recall that on April 23, Vladimir Putin signed a decree on non-working days between May holidays in 2021 in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

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Thus, the president supported the proposal of Rospotrebnadzor.

The head of the department, Anna Popova, said that this step could make "the epidemiological prognosis more stable."

Over the past day, 8053 cases of coronavirus have been detected in Russia.

In 24 hours, 8039 people fully recovered, 392 died from complications that developed against the background of COVID-19 and concomitant diseases.

Since the beginning of the pandemic in the country, 4,779,425 people have been diagnosed with COVID-19.

4,402,678 people recovered, 108,980 died.

267,767 cases remain active.

Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova assessed the current situation with coronavirus in Russia.

"Despite all the speculations on the third wave, so far in Russia (the situation. -

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) looks quite stable, but this is fragile stability, which we must, of course, support together with you," Golikova said at a meeting of the Presidium of the Council legislators of Russia.

The Deputy Prime Minister also said that new strains of SARS-CoV-2 have been identified in 54 Russian regions.

According to her, the "central hubs" are Moscow and St. Petersburg, but people travel to other regions, as a result of which the spread of the coronavirus continues.

"In 48 regions - the British strain, in 11 regions - South African, in 22 - strains that circulate in the Russian Federation, but have separate mutations in relation to the reference strain with which we are used to working," the Deputy Prime Minister explained.

She also noted that the achievement of collective immunity to coronavirus infection COVID-19 is possible in Russia by the fall.

“The approximate date for achieving herd immunity in Russia is September 2021.

In different subjects in different ways.

It all depends on the intensity of vaccination, ”Golikova clarified.

Vaccine production

By the end of May of this year, Russia plans to release 57 million doses of coronavirus vaccines into civilian circulation, follows from the report of the Ministry of Health on the results of the ministry's work in 2020 and tasks for 2021.

“Currently, 11.6 million doses of vaccines have been shipped to the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.

By the end of May 2021, it is planned to release 57 million doses of vaccines into civilian circulation to prevent the new coronavirus infection COVID-19, "the TASS document is quoted as saying.

As a reminder, there are currently three coronavirus vaccines registered in Russia.

The first drug was Sputnik V from the National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology named after Honorary Academician N.F.

Gamalei.

Registration of this vaccine in the Russian Federation took place in August 2020.

The RT film crew visited the Biocad plant in St. Petersburg, where the Sputnik V vaccine is produced.

In an interview with the channel's correspondents, the director of the department for interaction with government authorities Alexei Torgov spoke about the work on the production of the drug.

  • Production of the Sputnik V vaccine at the Biocad plant

In October 2020, the drug "EpiVacCorona", created by scientists of the State Scientific Center of Virology and Biotechnology "Vector", was registered in Russia.

The third vaccine, "KoviVac" of the M.P.

Chumakov Russian Academy of Sciences, was registered in February 2021.

To date, the vaccine has been registered in 62 countries, the latest of which is Bangladesh.

According to the head of the Ministry of Health Mikhail Murashko, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has completed the first stage of the examination of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine and will soon begin testing at production sites.

As a reminder, on March 4, the EMA began the procedure for the consistent examination of the Sputnik V registration dossier.

In the future, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the inspection of the manufacturing practice of the Sputnik V vaccine by experts from WHO and EMA is scheduled from May 10 to the first week of June.