Moscow, August 25:(Itar-Tass) Before the beginning of the autumn epidemiological season, 27.45 million Russians will be inoculated with national vaccines “Grippol” and “Grippol Plus” against influenza.
Both the vaccines contain actual strains of flu viruses and have been recommended by the World Health Organisation for the 2009-2010 period.
“Within the priority national project in the healthcare sphere, inoculation of the population from the ‘risk groups’ — medical workers, school students, children attending preschool institutions, persons older than 60 years of age,” the Russian Federal Consumer Protection and Human Welfare Service has said.
“On August 26, central staff members will be inoculated against influenza. The national vaccine Grippol will be used for immunisation,” the agency added.
Meanwhile, the first case of the A-H1N1 type influenza has been registered in the capital of Russia’s Tatarstan Republic — Kazan, head of Rospotrebnadzor’s epidemiological department for Tatarstan, Tatyana Makarova told Itar-Tass.
–PTI