"As of today, the number of citizens who received vaccination with the first component amounted to more than 44 million people," TASS quotes Golikova.

According to her, more than 37 million people have completed the full course of vaccination against coronavirus.

Earlier, an infectious disease specialist, vaccinologist, head physician of the Leader Meditsina medical center, Candidate of Medical Sciences Yevgeny Timakov and immunologist, General Director of the CEG contract research company, Candidate of Medical Sciences Nikolai Kryuchkov, in a commentary to URA.RU, stated that collective immunity to coronavirus infection could form only a year later.