“We are optimizing approaches to quarantine and laboratory testing of citizens, including reducing the quarantine period to seven days,” Golikova said.

At the same time, she added that if the situation changes, adjustments are possible.

Earlier, the Ministry of Health of Russia approved a temporary procedure for organizing preventive vaccinations against coronavirus.

Director of the Scientific Information Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Viral Infections Georgy Vikulov, in an interview with NSN, commented on the situation with the pandemic against the backdrop of the spread of the Omicron strain.