“When we have a prophylactic agent, when we can prevent a disease, when we can save lives, and this does not happen when a person put it off until later.
This is not a trip to a medical organization for some kind of certificate, this is a visit to a medical worker, which allows you to save your life, ”Murashko quotes TASS.
He stressed that "this is the key thing to learn today and get vaccinated."
“Moreover, it is timely to pass, and it is better to pass in the summer period, when the conditions for vaccination are the most favorable,” the minister said.
He also noted that "another important factor for the prevention of COVID-19 is the achievement of population immunity."
“We see that in recent months, the adherence to the prevention direction of the population has increased.
We are very pleased with this result, because the load that all medical organizations have been experiencing today for more than a year is extremely high.
There is also the fatigue of the medical staff, and we have reprofiled some medical organizations, of course, I want to return to my usual, normal work, save people's lives not only from COVID-19, but also to prevent and treat those serious non-infectious diseases that have not receded anywhere, ”- added the head of the Ministry of Health.
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.