“We do not see high risks for the Russian Federation, for our citizens.
We certainly know that we already have a test system, and today another specific test system for monkeypox is going out of registration.
We have a smallpox vaccine, which is also at the registration stage today, it has been developed and has shown itself well.
That is, it is impossible to say that citizens are not protected, ”RIA Novosti quotes her words in an interview with Russia 24 TV channel.
Popova noted that control was tightened at checkpoints to prevent the importation of monkeypox to Russia.
Earlier it became known that the regions of Russia received test systems for the detection of monkeypox virus, manufactured by the Vector Center of Rospotrebnadzor.
Alexander Gintsburg, director of the Gamaleya Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology, announced that the center was ready to create a vaccine against monkeypox within a few months.
He also noted that monkeypox is unlikely to cause a new pandemic.
Immunologist, Candidate of Medical Sciences Zoya Skorpileva, in an interview with URA.RU, told what is the difference between monkeypox and chickenpox.