"The covid pandemic from 2022, as I expect, will enter the influenza epidemic, its seasonality," TASS quotes Sergeev.
As the pandemic progressed, he compared the coronavirus to the Hong Kong flu epidemic in the 1960s.
“If there are good, reliable protocols for the use of drugs, then we will enter the mode of perceiving this ailment like the flu,” concluded Sergeev.
The head of the Russian Ministry of Health, Mikhail Murashko, signed an order according to which voluntary vaccination against coronavirus of adolescents aged 12 to 17 years is included in the calendar of preventive vaccinations for epidemic indications.
Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Health approved the national vaccination calendar and the vaccination schedule for epidemiological indications.
The document also spelled out vaccination against coronavirus infection COVID-19.