He said this at the Armenian-Russian Health Forum.
“Therefore, the preventive direction - vaccination against influenza, against covid infection, against pneumococcal infection - all this matters,” RIA Novosti quotes him.
The Minister advised people who have not yet had a flu shot to get this procedure.
For those who were vaccinated against coronavirus more than six months ago, Murashko was reminded of the need to revaccinate.
He stressed that today the Sputnik intranasal vaccine is already being used, while it also acts against adenovirus infection.
Earlier, Rospotrebnadzor reported that the epidemic process for coronavirus, influenza and other acute respiratory viral infections (ARVI) has intensified in Russia.