"The third wave, due to the fact that the strain is changing, is more aggressive and spreads faster among the population," Mutko quotes TASS.

Earlier, Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Tatyana Golikova spoke about the progress of vaccination against coronavirus infection COVID-19 in Russia.

Director of the Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology named after N.F.

Gamalei Alexander Gintsburg in an interview with NSN told how collective immunity is formed.