"The Sputnik V vaccine is effective against all variants, none of the variants has become more epidemically significant compared to the initial variant," RIA Novosti quotes Gintsburg's answer to the question of whether Sputnik V will be effective against the new variant of the "delta ".

According to him, new variants of this strain appear constantly, but in Moscow none of them exceeded a tenth of a percent in prevalence.

Earlier, Alexander Gintsburg said that registration of a children's vaccine against coronavirus is expected soon.