“Today at 17:00 at the Palace of Childhood in the city of Yakutsk, vaccination of children from 12 to 17 years old against a new coronavirus infection will begin.
This is the first stage of vaccination, at the moment the vaccine has arrived in limited quantities, ”RIA Novosti quotes Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic Olga Balabkina.
Formerly Director of the Research Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology named after V.I.
Gamalei Alexander Gintsburg previously announced the need to vaccinate 70-80% of children in Russia against coronavirus.
On January 28, the representative of the World Health Organization in Russia, Melita Vujnovic, noted that the WHO does not see any danger in vaccinating teenagers and children against coronavirus.