Russian Minister of Health Mikhail Murashko stressed that Russia maintains a sufficient stock of vaccines against coronavirus infection, and citizens should continue to be vaccinated and revaccinated.
As previously reported, back in November last year, Russian pharmaceutical companies stopped producing coronavirus vaccines due to overstocking. By that time, the Russians had lost interest in vaccination, the number of visits to specialized stationary and mobile vaccination points had sharply decreased, and the authorities had removed the requirements for mandatory vaccinations for representatives of a number of professions.
Murashko called the situation with coronavirus in Russia “stable”
By that time, the industry was producing several million vaccines every month, and there was simply nowhere to sell them, so the drugs were sent to warehouses. After some time, the expiration dates of vaccines were increased at the beginning to a year, and relatively recently, to one and a half years, in order to use the stocks available in warehouses. Probably, Mikhail Murashko had them in mind when he told reporters that there were enough vaccinations in Russia.
There is hope: the head of the Ministry of Health spoke about the trials of a vaccine against coronavirus against previous versions of the coronavirus. In this regard, work is already underway at the Gamaleya Center to modify the Sputnik V vaccine in order to reconfigure it specifically against the Delta and Omicron strains. True, the Delta strain is practically no longer found on the planet. (READ MORE)
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Mikhail Murashko Medicine Minister of Health of Russia