The number of people vaccinated against coronavirus infection in Moscow has exceeded 4 million, the press service of the mayor and the city government said.

"In total, over 4 million people have been vaccinated in the capital, of which over 2.2 million people are the second component," TASS reports from the press service.

Any Russian citizen over 18 years of age can be vaccinated against COVID-19 in the capital.

Vaccination points have been opened on the basis of city polyclinics, in several shopping centers and pavilions "Healthy Moscow".

The Russians can be vaccinated against the coronavirus with one of the vaccines registered in the country - this is the Sputnik V Center.

Gamalei, "EpiVacCorona" of the Novosibirsk center "Vector", "KoviVak", developed by the center.

M.P.

Chumakov, and a single-component vaccine "Sputnik Light".

In July, Russian President Vladimir Putin stressed during the APEC summit that all four coronavirus vaccines that have been developed and used in the country are safe and reliable.

COVID-19 statistics

The total number of COVID-19 cases registered in the country has reached 6,006,536; 5,382,213 patients have recovered since the beginning of the pandemic in Russia.

149,922 people died from complications due to coronavirus infection and concomitant diseases.

Over the past day, 23,770 new cases of coronavirus were detected in the country, of which the largest number was in Moscow (3188), the Moscow region (2478) and St. Petersburg (1934).

During this time, 22,218 people recovered, 784 patients died.

According to Rospotrebnadzor, more than 159.9 million laboratory tests for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus have been performed in the country, more than 1.2 million people remain under medical supervision.

The operational headquarters to combat the spread of coronavirus clarified that 1,465 people with COVID-19 were hospitalized in Moscow over the past day, 101 patients died.

"There are 588 people on the ventilator," the message says.

On the eve of Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that the number of newly diagnosed patients with coronavirus, as well as hospitalized patients with COVID-19 continues to decline for the fourth week in a row.

He spoke about this in a conversation with doctors.

“I hope that in the coming weeks the situation will improve and you will return to your normal work,” he said.

Vaccines and vaccinations

The Federal Biomedical Agency (FMBA) has announced that it has begun clinical trials of its coronavirus vaccine.

The drug is aimed at the development of cellular immunity and uses as a target the conservative proteins of the virus, the least susceptible to mutations.

The FMBA clarified that they received official permission from the Ministry of Health to conduct clinical trials of phases I and II of a subunit recombinant vaccine for the prevention of coronavirus infection.

They will be held from July 19th.

Preclinical studies of the drug were successfully completed in June and proved its safety, immunogenicity and protectiveness, the press service of the agency noted.

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At the same time, Vladimir Petrov, First Deputy Chairman of the Public Chamber of the Leningrad Region, proposed to establish responsibility for the call to refuse vaccination for non-medical reasons.

The corresponding letter, a copy of which is at the disposal of RT, the public figure sent to the Minister of Justice Konstantin Chuichenko.

As Petrov emphasized, some citizens refuse to be vaccinated, promoting speculation about the "harm" of vaccines.

He also recalled cases of illegal sales of fake certificates and QR codes for vaccinated people. 

Petrov expressed the opinion that the new measures will help increase the responsible attitude of the population to the vaccination process.

Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Health Protection Committee Nikolai Govorin, in an interview with RT, supported Vladimir Petrov's proposal, noting that citizens who do not want to be vaccinated should defend their opinion in expert communities, and not lobby for anti-vaccination.

“And so in general, especially through the Internet, when the mass of completely unscientific information given by people who have nothing to do with medicine at all, ultimately, forms such a wrong attitude among a part of the population.

Therefore, in most countries, the attitude towards people who carry out such campaign work is quite tough, ”Govorin recalled.

Meanwhile, the World Health Organization reported that a new strain of the lambda coronavirus has already been identified in more than 30 countries.

"It circulates in a number of countries, mainly in the Americas, although so far it has been found in more than 30 countries," RIA Novosti quotes Maria Van Kerkhove, head of the technical group of the Emergency Diseases Unit of the World Health Organization (WHO).

In addition, the WHO recommended that nursing mothers be vaccinated against coronavirus, since protection against infection can be transmitted to the child. The organization noted that a number of short-term studies have not found any risk to children due to immunization of nursing mothers.