"And this does not allow us to say that by September we will be able to achieve a sufficient level of collective immunity to talk about the abolition of restrictive measures and the conduct of all measures in full," Penkovskaya quoted TASS.

According to the Minister of Health of Crimea Alexander Ostapenko, 442,819 people underwent the first stage of vaccination against COVID-19 in the region, and 381,740 people underwent the second.

“On average, we are currently vaccinating 8-10 thousand people a day, of which 3-4 thousand people are vaccinated with the first component.

We need to increase this figure two to three times today.

Only the primary we should do about 11-12 thousand people, "- said Ostapenko.

According to data as of August 11, 21,571 cases of coronavirus infection were recorded in Russia per day, the total number of patients with COVID-19 was 6,512,859. 

Director of the Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology named after Gamaleya Alexander Gintsburg, in an interview with the NSN, told how herd immunity is formed.