"To achieve population immunity in relation to the" delta "variant, more than 80% of the population must be vaccinated," the newspaper Izvestia quotes Netesova.
According to him, about 20% of the population in Russia is vaccinated with one component of the vaccine.
He noted that the delta strain multiplies faster in the body of the diseased.
Earlier it became known that the delta coronavirus strain is capable of infecting three times more people than the usual version of the infection.