“To say that even after the completion of clinical trials it is necessary to switch to mass vaccination of children and adolescents, I think there is no reason for this,” Maksyutova quotes TASS.

He added that “in general, children in general get sick all the same fundamentally easier”.

According to data as of August 8, 22,866 cases of coronavirus infection were recorded in Russia per day, the total number of patients with COVID-19 was 6,447,750.