The head of the Military Medical Academy named after S. M. Kirov, Yevgeny Kryukov, said on the sidelines of the SPIEF that Russian servicemen have developed collective immunity to the coronavirus as a result of a successful vaccination campaign, TASS reports.
According to Kryukov, the vaccination of military personnel is almost finished. It was noted that with its voluntary nature, it was easier than for civilians.
The head of the academy also stressed that many medical developments for the treatment of COVID-19 were first used in the Ministry of Defense. For example, the DoD was the first to use the plasma of patients who had been vaccinated.
Earlier, the WHO said that by the end of the year, countries should vaccinate 30% of the population. At the same time, the director General of the health organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus believes that strains resistant to vaccination may appear. It was emphasized that high-risk groups and health workers should be vaccinated as a priority.