He said this during a meeting with members of the government.

“Of course, it is difficult to understand many colleagues who continue to divide the pandemic into their own, someone else's, and, in particular, slow down the registration of our vaccines, which are certainly safe and effective,” the president said.

At the same time, he hopes that this work will still be able to be organized jointly.

According to Putin, it is pointless to fight the pandemic separately.

Putin also said that the insidious recurring epidemic is causing Russia a lot of problems.

According to him, a similar situation occurs in the overwhelming majority of countries in the world.

The former chief sanitary doctor of Russia, Gennady Onishchenko, at an online briefing on the NSN, urged Russians to be vaccinated against the coronavirus.