“Today I am recording my video message in a rather unusual way.

I still fell ill with coronavirus, I am now in the ward at the Republican Infectious Diseases Hospital, ”Uyba said in a video message posted on VKontakte.

He clarified that "he was vaccinated with the Sputnik V vaccine in February and received a fairly high antibody titer."

“I want to say that if there were no vaccinations, then with the level of microbial contamination that I now have according to the results of PCR, this disease would be very severe,” added the head of Komi.

Earlier, the Governor of the Stavropol Territory Vladimir Vladimirov was re-vaccinated against coronavirus. He clarified that six months have passed since the first vaccination.