In some Russian regions, the number of people wishing to be vaccinated is growing. In particular, in St. Petersburg, the rate of vaccination has doubled, and in the Moscow region – as much as 8 times.
Deputy head of the government of the Moscow region Svetlana Strigunkova announced that the daily number of residents of the region visiting vaccination points has increased by 8 times. From the outside it sounds quite impressive, but in absolute terms it is not so grandiose. It turns out that until quite recently, only 800 residents of the region, where several million people live, came to be vaccinated every day. Now their number has grown to 7,000. Naturally, these are ridiculous numbers, and it is not surprising that the level of herd immunity, which is carefully calculated in the operational headquarters for the fight against coronavirus, has fallen to 8.7% in Russia.
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To protect against a new wave, it is necessary that this indicator be 10 times higher. It is no coincidence that some experts are already talking about the need to re-introduce mandatory vaccination for a number of categories of citizens, including employees in areas that work with people. First of all, these are social services, public catering, transport, police, education and healthcare. However, here we can already talk not about vaccination, but about revaccination.
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As practice shows, if 6 months have passed after vaccination and a person has not been re-injected, then the level of his protection against a new infection drops to zero. This is all the more true of the new versions of Omicron, which have even more advanced abilities to evade vaccine defenses. However, vaccination greatly reduces the likelihood of a severe form of coronavirus and death due to it. (READ MORE) 
Svetlana Strigunkova Medicine First Deputy Prime Minister Moscow region