“Today we believe that this project is one of the most necessary, because it is not the only pandemic that we have to face in our life,” Golikova said at the New Knowledge marathon.

According to RIA Novosti, the Deputy Prime Minister said that by 2030 there should be 30 Russian laboratories working with dangerous viruses, vaccines will be created in 4 months.

Earlier, the head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova, commenting on the plans to create a "sanitary shield", noted that it is designed to protect against "epidemiological shocks" in the future.