Moscow: The Ministry of Russian health has changed instructions for the use of Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccines, giving green lights to manage simultaneously with flu injections, according to the ministry statement.
“The Russian Ministry of Health has ratified simultaneous vaccinations against Covid and Influenza, because appropriate changes have been carried out with instructions for the medical use of the GAM-Covid-VAC vaccine (Sputnik V),” said the statement on Friday.
Studies have proven that when Covid-19 and flu vaccines are inoculated at the same time, the effectiveness is not reduced, the Russian health ministry said.
“The combination of sputnik v with the influenza vaccine has been studied in a preclinical trial, does not show a decrease in the immunogenicity of both vaccines when they are given simultaneously.
When Covid and flu vaccines are given simultaneously, shots are injected into various parts of the body., For example, left and right shoulders, “Word of press services in a statement.
On Friday, Russia recorded a new one-day record of 37,141 Covid-19 cases, up from the previous record of 36,339 cases confirmed the day before, bringing cumulative total to 8,168,305, according to the center of the federal response.
“During the last day, 37,141 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in 85 Russian regions, including 3,397 cases (9.1 percent) without clinical symptoms,” the center said, added that the rate of increase grew to 0.46 percent.
Moscow has the highest number of new cases with 8,166 infections, up from 7,897 the day before.
Russian capital was followed by St Petersburg with 3,233 cases, down from 3,280, and Moscow region with 2,428 cases, up from 2,318.
The response center reported a new record of 1,064 deaths related to Coronavirus, up from 1,036 the day before, bringing the state dead to 228,453.
In the same 24 hours, 25,453 Covid-19 patients were dismissed from hospitals throughout the country, down from 25,895 the day before, bringing a total of 7,117,060.