FMBA told about the progress of the agency's vaccine trials against coronavirus

She said that "a combined first and second phase is underway for the vaccine."

“The first phase has actually ended, the second phase is starting.

It will definitely go on for several months, apparently until the end of this year, ”TASS quotes Skvortsova.

According to data as of September 9, 18,380 cases of coronavirus infection were registered in Russia during the day.

In total, 7 084 284 cases of infection were detected in the country during the pandemic.

Director of the Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology named after Gamaleya Alexander Gintsburg, in an interview with the NSN, told how herd immunity is formed.