Rospotrebnadzor: more than 40 million Russians were vaccinated against influenza, which is 29% makes up 29 percent of the population. This was reported on the website of Rospotrebnadzor.
In terms of the total population, the epidemic thresholds for influenza and SARS were exceeded in 37 Russian regions. It is noted that the incidence is mainly due to the circulation of respiratory viruses of non-influenza etiology.
At the same time, the department added that an increase in the proportion of influenza viruses is noted in the general structure of detected respiratory viruses.
Rospotrebnadzor stressed that exceeding the weekly thresholds for the incidence of influenza and ARVI is observed mainly among the adult population.
Earlier, Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova said that on average in Russia, the proportion of those vaccinated against coronavirus with the first component is 67.8 percent of the planned number. According to her, this fall Russia was supposed to achieve collective immunity to COVID-19 in the amount of 80 percent of the adult population.