Head of the Ministry of Health: 41,000 teenagers were vaccinated against coronavirus in Russia

He said this at the presidium of the coordinating council under the government to combat COVID.

Murashko noted that voluntary vaccination of children aged 12 to 17 began in all Russian regions.

“A total of 41,000 children have been vaccinated.

The vaccine is available,” the minister said.

Previously, Deputy Director for Clinical Work of the Moscow Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology named after V.I.

Gabrichevsky Rospotrebnadzor Tatyana Ruzhentsova said that most children carry the omicron strain of coronavirus without further consequences for the body.