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In St. Petersburg started vaccination against influenza. As Larisa Solovieva, head of the department of outpatient medical care for the adult population of the Komzdrav, said at a press conference, the vaccine is already being delivered to the city, a number of mobile vaccination stations have begun to operate near metro stations. In particular, on Vyborgskaya, Udelnaya, Prospekt Prosveshcheniya.
According to Solovieva, a total of 3,240,000 people will be vaccinated, which is more than 60% of the population of St. Petersburg, including half a million children, 15,000 pregnant women, and 18,000 conscripts.
Influenza vaccinations will be given with the Sovigripp vaccine, and there is also a quadrivalent Ultrix-Kvadri vaccine for children and risk groups.
In turn, the head of the department of epidemiological surveillance of the Office of Rospotrebnadzor in St. Petersburg, Irina Kataeva, cited data that over 2 million 420 thousand people were vaccinated last season – this is 45% of the city’s population.
Larisa Solovieva said that in city clinics it is possible and recommended to be vaccinated against covid and flu at the same time. In mobile stations, you can only get vaccinated against influenza.
Valery Vasilyev, Deputy Chief Infectious Diseases Specialist of the Komzdrav, noted that since 2015 there has not been a single death from influenza among vaccinated Petersburgers, and the proportion of vaccinated patients with severe and moderate influenza in hospitals did not exceed 3%.
Source: Rosbalt
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