The decision was made during a meeting of the Commission of the Office for Sanitary Supervision over the Quality of Food and Drugs.

It is noted that 17 of the eighteen members of the commission voted that the benefits of vaccination with Pfizer vaccine outweigh the risks.

Earlier, a freelance specialist of the Ministry of Health of Russia on medical prevention in the Ural Federal District, pediatrician, doctor of medical sciences Sergei Tokarev said that the medical department removed breastfeeding from the list of contraindications for vaccination against coronavirus "Sputnik V".