MOSCOW, June 22 - RIA Novosti. The main part of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation is vaccinated against coronavirus - more than 900 thousand people have been vaccinated, Defense Minister General of the Russian Army Sergei Shoigu said at a conference call in the military department on Tuesday.
"We have already received more than a million doses of the vaccine, we have 910 thousand vaccinated. We completed vaccination in our main divisions a month ago, " the minister said.
He added that we are talking about the Special Operations Forces, the Navy, the Airborne Troops, the forces of constant readiness of aviation. "After that, we started full vaccination, including family members," he added.
According to the head of the department, the only ones for whom the work on vaccination continues in the Armed Forces are the recruits of the spring draft.
The Minister heard reports from the commanders of the groups of troops (forces) abroad on the status of vaccination of military personnel.
As noted, in particular, the commander of the troops in Syria, Lieutenant General Yevgeny Nikiforov, the sanitary and epidemiological situation in the Russian troops in Syria is stable. "One hundred percent vaccination of personnel was carried out. As a result, collective immunity is formed. There are no cases of a new coronavirus infection, " he said.
According to the commander of the Russian peacekeeping contingent in Nagorno-Karabakh, Lieutenant General Rustam Muradov, the peacekeepers are also 100% vaccinated against coronavirus, and group immunity has been created in the contingent.
Also, one hundred percent vaccination was carried out at the Kant air base in Kyrgyzstan.
