An unprecedented challenge: in the center Gamalei talked about the mass vaccination of Russians

At the National research center of epidemiology and Microbiology named Gamalei told that the need for mass vaccination of Russians from the coronavirus COVID-19. Director of SIC Alexander Ginzburg has called the problem “unprecedented,” reports RIA Novosti. For mass vaccination of the population need to produce 70 million doses of vaccine.

Measures for such large-scale production of a drug already being taken by Russian authorities and health care organizations, said Ginzburg.

By the end of July will culminate in testing a Russian vaccine against coronavirus, conducted on 18 volunteers. They began June 18 in the Burdenko hospital.