The Governor of the Samara Region announced the threat of a lockdown in the region due to COVID-19

“The situation is extremely alarming, the situation is so alarming that it is close, according to doctors, to critical.

And, indeed, the threat of a lockdown is looming again, ”RIA Novosti quotes him.

At the same time, he added that a lockdown in the region has not yet been introduced, since at the moment it is possible to protect against coronavirus with the help of vaccination. 

According to him, there are 169 vaccination points in the region, including mobile and round-the-clock, in total, 1.16 million people have already been vaccinated in the Samara region.

Earlier it was reported that the regional department of Rospotrebnadzor in Chukotka decided to carry out compulsory vaccination against COVID-19 for a number of categories of citizens in the region, a similar decision was also made in North Ossetia and Karachay-Cherkessia.

In July, Vitaly Zverev, microbiologist, scientific director of the State Research Institute of Vaccines and Serums named after V.I.

Mechnikov, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in an interview with URA.RU, emphasized the importance of achieving population immunity to coronavirus in the world.