Packages with children's vaccine Sputnik-M («Gam-COVID-Wak-M»). Archive photoNOVOSIBIRSK, Jan 30 Children often get asymptomatic covid, but they shed the virus, infecting relatives, so the Sputnik M vaccination of teenagers in Russia will help protect their parents, grandparents, from infection Sergey Netesov, a virologist and head of the laboratory of bionanotechnology, microbiology and virology at Novosibirsk State University, told RIA Novosti. surrounding people, including parents, grandparents. I know a number of family stories, when it was the children who brought the virus to the family, and then everyone got sick there. With Omicron, this story can repeat itself, «the expert said. that now it is children who are massively infected with the Omicron strain due to the property of this variant of the virus, which was first noted for the previous Delta strain. Delta, the children also began to get sick more. Because of this, Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca urgently tested vaccines on children and began to introduce them at the end of July. We are starting to implement Sputnik M now,” Netesov said. Many regions of Russia received the vaccine in January 2022. Alexei Kuznetsov, Assistant Minister of Health, told RIA Novosti that vaccination of adolescents is voluntary, it will be carried out with the consent of parents or legal representatives. fe85b7c0938d836c5288b46f1d664794.jpg» /> WHO urged to protect children and adolescents from «omicron»
