"The use of the Sputnik Light vaccine is advisable for re-vaccination six months after primary vaccination in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic or primary vaccination six months after the illness of adults over 18 years of age," RIA Novosti quotes the agency's message.

Earlier, the director of the Gamaleya National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology, Alexander Gintsburg, recommended that young people who have already had coronavirus be vaccinated with Sputnik Light.

On November 16, a batch of Sputnik Light coronavirus vaccine in the amount of 51 thousand copies arrived in the Leningrad Region.