Deputy Minister held meeting with traders on vaccinating against COVID-19
Today, German Lerner, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan, chaired the meeting with the heads of trading companies on the issue of vaccinating employees against coronavirus infection (COVID-19).
During the meeting, Deputy Minister Lerner stressed the particular importance of protecting the staff of trading companies from the dangerous infection as they come into contact with a large number of people every day in order to provide the population with essential food products. Deputy Head of the Tatarstan Office of the Russian consumer protection agency Rospotrebnadzor Lubov Avdonina delivered a report on the importance of vaccination.
Mass vaccination is the only effective way to stop pandemics with no alternative. Allowing the human population to acquire collective immunity by natural way means that more than 75%-80% of all people should be vaccinated against coronavirus infection.
However, no vaccination guarantees 100% protection against the disease. The vaccine protects against a severe course, complications, and deaths. The disease, if it does occur, is either asymptomatic or in a mild form. Therefore, it will still be necessary to wear a mask, where appropriate, until a collective immunity rate of 60% has been achieved.
As of today, 371,870 people in Tatarstan have been vaccinated against coronavirus infection, of whom 265,842 received the second component.