Reported by RIA Novosti.

“Now more than 28.6 million people have been vaccinated,” Yezhlova said as part of her speech at the forum “The health of the nation is the basis of Russia's prosperity”.

The RDIF earlier assured the Russians of the effectiveness of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine against new strains of coronavirus infection COVID-19.

The head of the organization, Kirill Dmitriev, noted that according to studies, the virus-neutralizing activity of Sputnik V against new, more dangerous strains was higher than that of many Western vaccines.