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After the appearance of the delta strain, the tactics and strategy of vaccination against coronavirus have changed, said Alexander Gintsburg, director of the Gamaleya Research Center.

The World Health Organization will give its assessment of the Russian Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine when it receives all the necessary documents from Russia, the WHO said.

More than 6,600 reports of possible side effects of COVID-19 vaccines have been reported in Switzerland, the country's Federal Public Health Office said on Friday.

Mutual recognition of coronavirus vaccines by countries is a matter of this year, said Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF).

The results of an independent study carried out by scientists from St. Petersburg confirm that the Russian Sputnik V vaccine is good against the delta variant of the coronavirus and effectively protects against the severe form of COVID-19.

The pharmaceutical industry did not immediately switch to the development of a drug for the treatment of coronavirus, since everyone assumed that COVID-19 was a seasonal infection.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade has warned of the risk of immunoglobulin deficiency in Russia.

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) does not have sufficient data on the safety of the Russian vaccine against the Sputnik V coronavirus, said the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.

The European Commission recognizes the vaccination certificates issued in San Marino, now they will be valid throughout the European Union and in the Schengen countries.

The World Health Organization has called for measures to curb the spread of e-cigarettes, including health labeling, according to the eighth WHO report on the dangers of tobacco released on Tuesday.

The Russian Ministry of Health approved a study of a combination of vaccines against the coronavirus of the Russian drug Sputnik Light by the Gamaleya Center and the vaccines of the British-Swedish company and the University of Oxford AstraZeneca.

The government of the Indian state of Kerala intends to sign an agreement with Russia on the intention to create in the state a complex for the production of the Russian vaccine against coronavirus Sputnik V.

Israel has created the world's first capsule vaccine against coronavirus and is preparing for its clinical trials.

Research by the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) has confirmed the effectiveness against the delta coronavirus strain of all coronavirus vaccines used in the country, including the Russian drug Sputnik V.

Russian Ambassador to China Andrei Denisov said that he was vaccinated with the Chinese vaccine to make it easier to return to China after leaving for Moscow.