“Until 2024, we plan to allocate about 30 billion rubles for these purposes,” Golikova said.

At the same time, she noted that “the project does not end in 2024”.

“Still, we believe that it should continue until 2030, since the world is developing quite seriously in this direction and here we have no right to lag behind,” the Deputy Prime Minister said.

According to data as of July 26, 23,239 cases of coronavirus infection were detected in Russia per day.

The total number of cases during the epidemic was 6,149,780. 

Former chief sanitary doctor of Russia Gennady Onishchenko at an online briefing on the NSN urged Russians to be vaccinated against COVID-19.