Doctor Timakov: the incidence of COVID-19 in children has increased tenfold due to the delta strain 
Children in Russia have become tens times more often to become infected with COVID-19 with the appearance of the delta strain. This was stated by the doctor-virologist Yevgeny Timakov, his words are reported by TASS.
“Since the appearance of the delta strain, since the middle of summer, we have been actively talking about the fact that children are sick, are sick from birth, are sick dozens of times more often than before, ”he said. The specialist emphasized that if all family members are sick, the probability of a child's illness is 80-90 percent. He also noted that children are becoming the main distributors of coronavirus infection.
Earlier, Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko, during a working trip to the Ryazan region, announced an increase in the incidence of coronavirus among children in the country. He noted that a vaccine based on Sputnik V has been developed for children.