“It is quite likely that the vaccines against the new coronavirus will have to be periodically updated and immunized annually, as is now happening with the same influenza virus.
I think by the fall we will accumulate a sufficient amount of data on the effectiveness of existing vaccines against new strains, "RIA Novosti quotes him.
Earlier, Khafizov said that "local" Russian versions of the coronavirus are emerging in Russia, which have mutations in the genome characteristic of the British and South African variants of COVID-19.
In April, the director of the Gamaleya Center, Alexander Gunzburg, announced that the Sputnik V vaccine would be effective against the Indian mutation of the coronavirus.