“The most important task here is vaccination of the population.

And we try to follow the path of coercion, but the path of persuasion.

We are trying to combat prejudices and prejudices associated with rejection of vaccinations.

I must say that, in general, especially recently, we see that this brings the desired result, "RIA Novosti quoted Putin as saying.

According to data as of December 5, 32,602 cases of coronavirus infection were detected in Russia per day.

In total, 9 801 613 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the country since the beginning of the epidemic.

Virologist Yevgeny Timakov, in an interview with FAN, gave a forecast regarding the situation with COVID-19 before the New Year holidays.